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quoad hoc

[ kwaw-ahd hohk; English kwoh-ad hok ]

adverb

, Latin.
  1. as much as this; to this extent.


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They have thus become quoad hoc, practical atheists.

Quoad, kwō′ad, prep. as far as, to this extent.—Quoad hoc, as far as this; Quoad omnia, in respect of all things; Quoad sacra, as far as concerns sacred matters, as a parish disjoined for ecclesiastical purposes only.

"Till then," he wrote to John Adams, "we must be content to return, quoad hoc, to the savage state, to recur to barter in the exchange of our property, for want of a stable, common measure of value, that now in use being less fixed than the beads and wampum of the Indians."

His advice, quoad hoc, seemed uniformly trustworthy.

Does any person here deny the proposition, that the people of a territory, in the formation of a State Constitution, are to that extent—quoad hoc—sovereign and uncontrollable, though still owing obedience to the provisional government of the territory?

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