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‖ tanquam Obs.|ˈtænkwæm|
Also (in sense 3) tam quam.
[L. tam quam, tanquam so much as, as much as, as if, as it were.]
1. Something that has only an apparent existence; a mere seeming; an ‘as it were’.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 537 He sheweth the Visibles, or Things of this World to be but tanquams, only as it weres.
2. In the University of Cambridge [from L. tanquam socius, ‘as if a fellow’]: see quots.
a1661Fuller Worthies (1662) ii. 207 Thomas Dove D.D. was born in this City,..bred a Tanquam (which is a Fellowes Fellow) in Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge. 1706Phillips (ed. 6), Tanquam..In the Universities.. is taken for a Person of Worth and Learning, that is fit Company for the Fellows of Colleges, &c.
3. Law. = qui tam: see quot. 1907. (From the words tam{ddd}quam{ddd}, beginning the two clauses.)
c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 47 For I declare (quod he) in the Tam quam How so the matter goe, they gette no cost [i.e. because costs are not given against the Crown]. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 258 Suppose some be so stuborne as to stand to the triall, yet can this cunning knaue declare a Tamquam against them, so that though they be cleered, yet can they haue no recompence at all, for that he doth it in the courts behalfe. 1809in Tomlins Law Dict. [ 1907Encycl. Laws of Engl. VII. 239 s.v. Informer, Actions by common informers are termed qui tam actions, or popular actions, when the informer recovers the statutory penalty (tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso).] |