- Ad captandum
- Ad captandum Ad cap*tan"dum [L., for catching.] A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Ad captandum
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Ad captandum — In rhetoric an argument ad captandum, for capturing the gullibility of the naïve among the listeners or readers, is an unsound, specious argument, a kind of seductive casuistry. The longer form of the term is ad captandum vulgus (Latin, to win… … Wikipedia
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ad captandum vulgus — /ahd kahp tahn doom wool goos/; Eng. /ad kap tan deuhm vul geuhs/, Latin. in order to please the mob. [lit., for courting the crowd] * * * … Universalium
ad captandum (vulgus) — to capture the affection or suit the taste (of the crowd) … Dictionary of difficult words
ad captandum — For the purpose of catching or capturing … Ballentine's law dictionary
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