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Terminus ad quem

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TERMINUS AD QUEM. The point of termination of a private way is so called.


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A terminus ad quem is suggested by the fact that pennons like those depicted in the painting, which were used only for a short period of time, lost currency around 1897, after which time they tended to be stitched together to form a single flag (Chojnacki 1969:137).
This reigning scientific orthodoxy has not only removed the hand of God from human and natural affairs, it has also led humanity to a state of despair--for, if earthquakes can be explained away in terms of the movement of tectonic plates, and all that happens on earth in terms of randomly occurring processes, then life on this ravaged planet itself becomes a terminus ad quem, without any hope of a future life.
If he means that the embryo's chromosomal constitution establishes its terminus ad quem, namely, a human being rather than a cow, bird, or reptile, then all will agree.
 
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