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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

a baculo en · ADV

Learned borrowing from Latin ā baculō (literally “by means of the rod”), from ā (“of, from”) + baculō (“sceptre, rod”), ablative singular of baculum.

(not-comparable, uncommon) Argued by means of force rather than logic.
- Philonous’ reply is perhaps less interesting for its a baculo dismissal of the argument than for a nuance in its first sentence. 2018, William Boos, edited by Florence S. Boos, Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition, →ISBN, page 257: