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- preposition archaic
with respect to
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Examples
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He would have seen that a person, 'quoad' person, can have nothing common or generic; and that where this finds place, the person is corrupted by introsusception of a nature, which becomes evil thereby, and on this relation only is an evil nature.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Better thus; -- nationality in each individual, 'quoad' his country, is equal to the sense of individuality 'quoad' himself; but himself as subsensuous, and central.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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By its nationality must every nation retain its independence; -- I mean a nationality 'quoad' the nation.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Uterque verò rabie Democratica, quoad Politiam; et Infidelis quoad Religionem spectat, turpiter fervet.
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Testiculi quoad causam conjunctam, epar antecedentem, possunt esse subjectum.
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Lusitani, inquit, quorundum civitates adierunt: qui natis statim faeminis naturam consuunt, quoad urinae exitus ne impediatur, easque quum adoleverint sic consutas in matrimonium collocant, ut sponsi prima cura sit conglutinatas puellae oras ferro interscindere.
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Qui, quoad pueritae ultimam memoriam recordari potest non meminit se aegrotum decubuisse.
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Munus nostrum ornato verbis, et istum aemulum, quoad poteris, ab ea pellito.
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He had been supplanted, quoad doctor, in the house of this rich, eccentric, railway baronet, and he would show that he bore no malice on that account.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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Catalogum persequi, vt ex annalibus nostris continuata diligenter, quoad eius fieri potest, omnium series, his quæ de primo Isleifo contra Krantzium attulimus, fidem faciat.
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