Definition of Ad nauseam

1. Adverb. To a sickening extent. "He played the song ad nauseam"

Definition of Ad nauseam

1. Adverb. to a nauseating or sickening degree. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ad Nauseam

ad hominems
ad hominum
ad idem
ad infinitum
ad interim
ad lib
ad libbed
ad libbing
ad libitum
ad libs
ad litem
ad loc.
ad modum
ad modum Donders
ad nauseam (current term)
ad nauseum
ad referendum
ad rem
ad sat
ad seriatum
ad truck
ad val
ad valorem
ad valorem tax
ad valorem taxes
ad verbum
ad verecundiam
adacrya
adactylia

Literary usage of Ad nauseam

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1896)
"... Teuton had invented a machine with engraved metal cylinders, heated to a certain degree, which reeled off decorative burnt-wood panels ad nauseam. ..."

2. Art in Short Story Narration ...: A Practical Treatise by Henry Albert Phillips (1913)
"CHAPTER XVII THE TEMPER OF LOVE DETAILS ad nauseam; ROMANCE AND LOVE; ILLICIT LOVE ; THE INCOMPARABLE THEME. JUST as all the world is said to love a lover, ..."

3. A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages (1869)
"The same ideas re-appear ad nauseam" that is, till they are absolutely sickening or nauseating. Ad ogni cosa è rimedio fuora ch'alia morte. Ita!, prov. ..."

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