Ad
[æd] or ['e'di]
Definition
(noun.) a public promotion of some product or service.
(adv.) in the Christian era; used before dates after the supposed year Christ was born; 'in AD 200'.
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Examples
- I should wish now to protract this moment _ad infinitum_; but I dare not. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Miss 'Melia's gownds--have you got them--as the lady's maid was to have 'ad? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Fiat emulsio, secundum artem, ad f ?vj. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It ad dressed itself to actual problems, such as determining the area of a square or triangular field from the length of the sides. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And this is the Godmotion, this productive repetition ad infinitum. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had been severely bitten by a m ad dog. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- His emotions responded to the glories of tropica l vegetation in the Brazilian forests, and to the sublimity of Patagonian wastes and the forest-cl ad hills of Tierra del Fuego. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Ad rub uds too,' added Barney. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The last words of the statute are reliqua judicabis secundum praescripta, habendo respectum ad pretium bladi. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You've 'ad my substance: my plate and linning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This Sixth Crusade was indeed not only the _reductio ad absurdum_ of crusades, but of papal excommunications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For months he h ad leisure for nothing else. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This is implied in the reductio ad absurdum that 'justice is a thief,' and in the dissatisfaction which Socrates expresses at the final result. Plato. The Republic.
- Wal, now, who'd a thought this yer luck 'ad come to me? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Then, lodges, clubs, churches and other organizations must maintain lists of names of their members; and so the different kinds of lists go on _ad infinitum_. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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