Definition of terminus ad quem in English:
terminus ad quem
noun ˌtəːmɪnəs ad ˈkwɛmˌtərmənəs äd ˈkwem
1The point at which something ends or finishes.
Example sentencesExamples
- Hence the terminus ad quem can by no possibility be referred to a date later than the last decade but two of the second century.
- Accordingly, the terminus ad quem for my study of the Korean diaspora will be approximately 1965 when the immigration laws of the United States were relaxed, bringing a large influx of Koreans into the country and thereby changing the character of the diaspora.
- The good as value is the final cause of the action because it attracts the agent to realize that goal or end, the terminus ad quem.
- Instead they have, in effect, imposed their own terminus ad quem, being the date of the raising of the present action.
- The text provides no date by which the terminus ad quem (a final limiting point in time) can be fixed.
- 1.1 An aim or goal.
Origin
Latin, literally 'end to which'.