a baculo

adverb

Argued by means of force rather than logic.

OriginLatin ā baculō →
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Meanings

adverba baculo (not comparable)
  1. not comparableuncommonArgued by means of force rather than logic.

    Philonous’ reply is perhaps less interesting for its a baculo dismissal of the argument than for a nuance in its first sentence.

    2018, William Boos, edited by Florence S. Boos, Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition, →ISBN, page 257

Origin

  1. Latinā baculō
  2. Englisha baculo

Learned borrowing from Latin ā baculō (literally “by means of the rod”), from ā (“of, from”) + baculō (“sceptre, rod”), ablative singular of baculum.

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MLA

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Chicago

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