a baculo

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English

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Etymology

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

Adverb

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a baculo (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Argued by means of force rather than logic.
    • 2018, William Boos, edited by Florence S. Boos, Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition, →ISBN, page 257:
      Philonous’ reply is perhaps less interesting for its a baculo dismissal of the argument than for a nuance in its first sentence.

References

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  • Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 3