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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ā baculō (literally “by means of the rod”), from ā (“of, from”) + baculō (“sceptre, rod”), ablative singular of baculum.
Adverb
a baculo (not comparable)
- (uncommon) Argued by means of force rather than logic.
2018, William Boos, edited by Florence S. Boos, Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition, →ISBN, page 257:Philonous’ reply is perhaps less interesting for its a baculo dismissal of the argument than for a nuance in its first sentence.
References
- Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 3