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.
Thursday 8 March 2007
absit omen
"when you stop to think of it," Della Street said, "he did seem to walk into our trap most beautifully. He handled everything so obligingly."
(Della Street, from Erle Stanley Gardner "Perry Mason solves the case of the Bigamous Spouse)
