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‖ quoad|ˈkwəʊæd|
[L., ‘so far as’, ‘as much as’, ‘as to’, f. quō where, whither + ad to.]
To the extent of, as regards, with respect to.
1742Gilbert Reports of Cases in Equity 3 To supply the Defect of the Will quoad that Daughter. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 462 It will operate beneficially, quoad the quantity applied. 1839Arnold in Life (1844) II. ix. 149 The Order of Deacons, which has been long, quoad the reality, dead. 1872E. Braddon Life in India iii. 58 His peculiar position..quoad the natives subject..to him.
b. quoad hoc, to this extent, as far as this, with respect to this.
1601J. Chamber Agst. Judic. Astrol. iv. 24 It followeth, that these figure-flingers may sometime hit, and sometime misse quoad hoc. 1737Common Sense I. 219 Infinite are the Numbers of minor Coxcombs, who are Coxcombs quoad hoc. 1779Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXIX. 281 That which they do have must..render the hermaphrodite imperfect quoad hoc. 1884Law Times LXXVIII. 169/2 The Bankruptcy and Insolvent Court Act..which quoad hoc is unrepealed.
c. quoad sacra |ˈseɪkrə|, ‘as far as concerns sacred matters’, used esp. in Scotland with ref. to parishes constituted for purely ecclesiastical purposes (as contrasted with parishes quoad civilia); hence attrib. with church, minister, parish.
The usual Sc. pron. is |ˈkwoad| or |kwɔd ˈsakrə|.
1825Dunlop Treat. Law Scot. §125 When a part of a parish is disjoined, or annexed, quoad sacra merely [etc.]. 1845New Statist. Acc. XV. Caithness 163 The quoad sacra parish of Keise was erected 1833. 1882J. Cunningham Ch. Hist. (ed. 2) xxx. 534 The quoad sacra ministers in general lost nothing by the Secession.
Add:d. quoad hanc (hunc), ‘as far as this woman (man) is concerned’ used with reference to the nullity of marriage or to sexual impotence. Also (rare) quoad illam, ‘as far as that woman is concerned’.
1719Baron & Feme Treat. Husbands & Wives (ed. 2) xxxii. 376 In Berry's Case, the first judgment was given upon a libel, which was that he was frigidus..; but no mention whether maleficiatus, or not, quoad hanc only, or frigidus a natura. 1853J. E. P. Robertson Rep. Cases Eccl. Courts II. 630 The only case in the books, and that was collusive, in which a sentence of nullity quoad hanc has been pronounced, is that of The Countess of Essex. 1922Times 11 Oct. 11/5 This ancient judgment..throws great difficulty in the way of a woman who..finds it difficult to..obtain evidence of adultery; quoad hanc, in one case before me, she almost failed. 1960Times 12 July 3/7 The husband's incapacity—not a general impotence, but incapacity quoad hanc. 1974Rayden's Pract. & Law Divorce (ed. 12) I. vi. 162 The averment of impotency quoad hunc or quoad hanc is sufficient to support a decree. |