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  • preposition archaic with respect to

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Latin

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • By its nationality must every nation retain its independence; -- I mean a nationality 'quoad' the nation.

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Uterque verò rabie Democratica, quoad Politiam; et Infidelis quoad Religionem spectat, turpiter fervet.

    Thomas Poole and his Friends 2007

  • Testiculi quoad causam conjunctam, epar antecedentem, possunt esse subjectum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 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.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui, quoad pueritae ultimam memoriam recordari potest non meminit se aegrotum decubuisse.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Munus nostrum ornato verbis, et istum aemulum, quoad poteris, ab ea pellito.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 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

  • Catalogum persequi, vt ex annalibus nostris continuata diligenter, quoad eius fieri potest, omnium series, his quæ de primo Isleifo contra Krantzium attulimus, fidem faciat.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

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