Meanings of terminus ad quem in English

Thus the subject is the ' terminus a quo,' and the predicate is the ' terminus ad quem.'

The main object of our trip down the River of Barks-theterminus ad quem of the expedition, so to speak-wasa bear.

The terminus ad quem is less certain--irondoes not begin to be used for weapons in the Aegean till after Period III.

Cognition, whenever we take it concretely, means determinate 'ambulation,' through intermediaries, from a terminus a quo to, or towards, a terminus ad quem.

He fails in short to distinguish between taking the world's perfection as a necessary principle, and taking it only as a possible terminus ad quem.