Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the quotation.
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Examples
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The second important ambiguity lies in the Latin term tanquam, since it can mean either
Prologue 2009
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Note 37: "Siquidem quamuis beata illa soror in silencii observacione sollicita fuerit nimis, nunquam transgrediens et infringend legem silencii in vita sua, tamen cum graciam illuminantem se minus solito se habere conspexit, strictissimum sibi ipsi silencium indixit, tanquam os ad loquendum ey aures ad audiendum non haberet; ..."
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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In contrast, the objectivist reading takes the intellect in question to be the infinite one, and the tanquam to mean “as in fact,” and so it read the definition as claiming that attributes are what the infinite intellect perceives of substance as (in fact) constituting its essence.
Prologue 2009
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Spinoza defines the term “attribute” in Definition 4 of Part One of the Ethics thus: “Per attributum intelligo id, quod intellectus de substantia percipit, tanquam ejusdem essentiam constituens.”
Prologue 2009
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Therefore, the tanquam in the definition is to be read “as in fact” and not “as if.”
Prologue 2009
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Sed nec inter tantos repertus est vel unus, qui, tanquam vecors ant timidus, sive post tergum alterius declinans, seipsum a tanta caede praetendit excusare.
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But I had one defence left, which came to my aid, tanquam deus ex machina.
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Stant igitur partes attonitae, tanquam non ad conflictum progressuri, ob defectum evasi: noluit enim pars integrum habens numerum sociorum consentire, ut unus de suis demeretur; nec potuit pars altera quocumque pretio alterum ad supplendum vicem fugientis inducere.
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And Veritates nostrae catholicae, quae tanquam indubia Dei emata inforo interiori descriptae.
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Spicula; tanquam haec sint nostri medicina furoris,
sionnach commented on the word tanquam
A person with enough education to attend college.
February 4, 2008
gangerh commented on the word tanquam
Reminds me of Mark Twain's quip -
'I never let school interfere with my education'.
February 4, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word tanquam
Besides the 'good enough to be a fellow' sense (which it attributes specifically to Cambridge), the OED gives a general 'as it were' sense ('a mere seeming') and a legal one of qui tam, all obsolete.
September 28, 2008