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Ad libitum   Listen
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Ad libitum  phr.  At one's pleasure; as one wishes.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ad libitum" Quotes from Famous Books



... that, when a Proposition begins with "some" or "no", and contains more that two Attributes, these Attributes may be re-arranged, and shifted from one Term to the other, "ad libitum." For example, "some abc are def" may be re-arranged as "some bf are acde," each being equivalent to "some Things are abcdef". Again "No wise old men are rash and reckless gamblers" may be re-arranged as "No rash old gamblers are wise ...
— The Game of Logic • Lewis Carroll

... medium soft black pencil, above all the awesome legal "Commission," impressively signed and sealed, wherein none other than our weighty nation's chief himself did expressly authorize me to search out, enter, and question ad libitum. All this swung over a shoulder in a white canvas sack, that carried memory back through the long years to my newsboy days, I descended to ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck



Words linked to "Ad libitum" :   ad lib, impromptu, spontaneously



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