a baculo

See also: abaculo

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)

1. (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 [1909], →ISBN), page 3