Loosely, "even more so" or "with even stronger reason". Often used to lead from a less certain proposition to a more evident corollary. It is unwise to invest in pyramid schemes, and, a fortiori, in e-mail pyramid schemes.

Monday 26 February 2007

modus vivendi

"I finished up my work at about nine o'clock. The eleventh was my day off. I had been told that I didn't need to stay all night on the tenth, so I left the house just prior to nine in the evening - just view minutes before. I had planned to return early on the morning of the twelfth. However, the police located me and interfered with my plans."

(Mrs. Minnie Crowder, from Erle Stanley Gardner "Perry Mason solves the case of the Bigamous Spouse)

Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen

quid nunc

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my birth was a product of tourism and diplomacy.