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ad extremum
[ ahd ek-strey-moom; English ad ek-stree-muhm ]
adverb
- to the extreme; at last; finally.
Example Sentences
Pene haec millenos ecclesia floruit annos, Duret ad extremum nobilis usque diem, Daque deus longum, ut floreat hae sacra aedes Et celebret nomen plebs ibi sancta tuum.
Earlier in his career he expresses in language less definite, but still sufficiently clear, his ideas as to another world: "An vero tam parvi animi videamur esse omnes, qui in republica, atque in his vitæ periculis laboribusque versamur, ut, quum, usque ad extremum spatium, nullum tranquillum atque otiosum spiritum duxerimus, vobiscum simul moritura omnia arbitremur?"
Solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne Peccet ad extremum ridendus et ilia ducat.”
Beza alludes to her as "matrona quædam et genere et pietate valde nobilis, fidem ad extremum usque spiritum professa signis omnibus, quum, abscisa lingua et ardente face pudendis ipsius turpissime ac crudelissime injecta, torreretur."
Duravit hic illi usque ad extremum nec aut spatio valetudinis aut metu mortis infractus est, quo plures gravioresque nobis causas relinqueret et desiderii et doloris.
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