[L., ‘so far as,’ ‘as much as,’ ‘as to,’ f. quō where, whither + ad to.] To the extent of, as regards, with respect to.
1742. Gilbert, Reports of Cases in Equity, 3. To supply the Defect of the Will quoad that Daughter.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 462. It will operate beneficially, quoad the quantity applied.
1839. Arnold, in Life (1844), II. ix. 149. The Order of Deacons, which has been long, quoad the reality, dead.
1872. E. 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.
1601. J. Chamber, Agst. Judic. Astrol., iv. 24. It followeth, that these figure-flingers may sometime hit, and sometime misse quoad hoc.
1737. Common Sense, I. 219. Infinite are the Numbers of minor Coxcombs, who are Coxcombs quoad hoc.
1779. Hunter, in Phil. Trans., LXIX. 281. That which they do have must … render the hermaphrodite imperfect quoad hoc.
1884. Law Times, LXXVIII. 169/2. The Bankruptcy and Insolvent Court Act … which quoad hoc is unrepealed.
c. Quoad sacra, ‘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.
1825. Dunlop, Treat. Law Scot., § 125. When a part of a parish is disjoined, or annexed, quoad sacra merely [etc.].
1845. New Statist. Acc. XV. Caithness, 163. The quoad sacra parish of Keise was erected 1833.
1882. J. Cunningham, Ch. Hist. (ed. 2), xxx. 534. The quoad sacra ministers in general lost nothing by the Secession.
