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‖ ad hoc|æd hɒk|
[L., lit. ‘to this’.]
a. For this purpose, to this end; for the particular purpose in hand or in view.
1659R. Baxter Key for Catholics ii. iv. 451 Ad hoc the Magistrate is the only Judge what is sound doctrine. 1809Edin. Rev. Jan. 433 The conscripts are..examined..by a special commission, created ad hoc by the prefect. 1875W. R. Greg Misc. Ess. (1882) vi. 147 A sum not far off two millions per annum will have to be provided ad hoc by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
b. attrib. or as adj. Devoted, appointed, etc., to or for some particular purpose.
[1853Greville Mem. (1887) iii. I. ii. 51 There are already symptoms of a possible combination ad hoc.] 1879in E. Yates Time I. 3 The special matter that brought about the ad hoc departure from the Lawrentian policy. 1900Daily News 18 Apr. 7/1 The discussion of the constitution of the educational authorities was sensational, inasmuch as it led to the Conference declaring for the ad hoc principle. 1904Fabian News Aug. 29/1 A report..on the total abolition of ad hoc bodies was read. 1928Abp. of Canterbury in Daily News 8 Feb. 10/1 A growing sense of the usefulness of Reservation of the ad hoc kind. 1955Times 14 May 11/1 He was still employed by the B.B.C. on an ad hoc basis as a programme producer.
c. Hence (nonce-wds.): ad hoc v., to use ad hoc measures or contrivances, to improvise; so adhoc(k)ing vbl. n.; ad hoc-ery, the use of such measures; ad ˈhocism (also as one word), the use of ad hoc measures, esp. as a deliberate means of avoiding long-term policy; ad-hoc-ness, the nature of, or devotion to, ad hoc principles or practice.
1930A. Flexner Universities ii. 71 ‘Ad-hoc-ness’, if..I may be permitted to invent an indefensible word, is not confined to courses or curricula. 1936Mind XLV. 249 There is a suspicion of ‘ad-hoc-ness’ about the ‘explanation’. 1960C. Ray Merry Eng. 136 The Civil Servant who complained..about ‘all this adhocking’. 196020th Cent. Dec. 588 The Children's Department, generous-hearted, chaotic, brilliantly ad-hocing. 1961Economist 14 Oct. 124/1 Britain thrives on ‘anomalies’ and ‘ad hoc-eries’. 1968D. R. Gadgil in Bhagwati & Desai India Planning for Industrialization (1970) viii. 132 The first [difficulty] is the lack of a coordinated view and of a frame of considered policy... It is..related to the short-term, departmental view that Secretaries and others take... Ad hocism in policy decisions is the result. 1969Guardian 2 Oct. 11/4 The first rule of non-design or Ad Hocism is to alter as little as possible. 1972N. Silver in Silver & Jencks Adhocism ii. i. 105 As soon as one sees that there can be an actual policy of contingent, resourceful action, or adhocism,..this mongrel creativity..appears everywhere. 1981Times of India 30 Aug. 8/5 The adhocism exhibited at all levels. |