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  Tertium Quid -- Candyce Ossefort-Russell, M.A., LPC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Literally, tertium quid means “the third thing.” It’s “holding the tension of opposites” until a new discovery or perspective emerges.
The tertium quid, then, is a new and different path we begin to distinguish between the two divergent ones we could see before, a path that says both/and instead of either/or.
To me the tertium quid, and the bearing of the unknown that leads toward it, are symbols of the resilience and fundamental healing nature of the human spirit, of the mystery that resides at the authentic center of each of us.
www.candycecounseling.com /tertiumquid.html   (453 words)

  
 wk5 montage editing part 2
This montage creates a tertium quid, a third something, that is not contained in either of the montage parts.
In the example here, the intended tertium quid, -- the overall theme -- is the idea of inevitable decay.
For example, another method of creating the tertium quid of swiftness and speed might be to eliminate the jet's shadow and simply keep the sound of the jet in flight as the second element of the comparison montage.
www.sfu.ca /iat242/week5/wk5-montage2.htm   (1461 words)

  
 At the Pit's Mouth - from Under the Deodars - Rudyard Kipling, Book, etext
The Tertium Quid flew downhill on horseback, but it was to meet the Man’s Wife; and when he flew uphill it was for the same end.
She was not allowed to own the Tertium Quid in peace; and was so strangely constructed that she would not have enjoyed peace had she been so permitted.
The Tertium Quid pulled his moustache, and replied that horrid people were unworthy of the consideration of nice people.
whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/UndertheDeodars/pitmouth.html   (1859 words)

  
 Quids — Infoplease.com
Quid - Quid a sovereign; Half a Quid, half a sovereign; Quids, cash or money generally.
Tertium Quid - Tertium Quid A third party which shall be nameless.
Quid Rides - Quid Rides It is said that Lundy Foot, a Dublin tobacconist, set up his carriage, and asked Emmett...
www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0840808.html   (203 words)

  
 From Burke to Kirk and Beyond...
Only one dissenting opinion to the report's conclusions has been published, and that dissonant note was in the obscure Peoria Gazette and Almanac, whose write-in editorialist this morning noted that of all the illustrious members of the Agricultural Study Group, not a single one was farmer or had even grown up on a farm.
For the population in aggregate, the whole idea that you can exploit the economy of one location for your work and exploit the space of another location for your kids' schooling and for rest and recreation is a fallacy over time.
Tertium Quid is an attorney who prefers to remain anonymous.
burketokirk.blogspot.com   (7302 words)

  
 Chapter At the Pit's Mouth of At the Pit's Mouth by Rudyard Kipling
That night it rained heavily, and, next day, when the Tertium Quid came to the trysting- place, he saw that the new grave had a foot of water in it, the ground being a tough and sour clay.
He was smiling, but, while she looked, the smile froze stiff as it were on his face, and changed to a nervous grin—the sort of grin men wear when they are not quite easy in their saddles.
But the Tertium Quid was glued to the saddle—his face blue and white—and he looked into the Man’s Wife’s eyes.
www.bibliomania.com /0/5/31/860/8618/3.html   (695 words)

  
 Chapter At the Pit's Mouth of At the Pit's Mouth by Rudyard Kipling
She and the Tertium Quid enjoyed each other’s society among the graves of men and women whom they had known and danced with aforetime.
They used to take a big horse-blanket and sit on the grass a little to the left of the lower end, where there is a dip in the ground, and where the occupied graves stop short and the ready-made ones are not ready.
The coolies worked away, and the Man’s Wife and the Tertium Quid watched and talked for a couple of hours while the grave was being deepened.
www.bibliomania.com /0/5/31/860/8618/2.html   (600 words)

  
 quid pro quo - Anarchy Online Bulletin Board
A crimson Erisium Quid or green Envium Quid leap to mind as being apropos, but cotinuing the numbering with a Quaternium or Quinium Quid and changing its color palette, luminosity and perhaps opacity.
Of course, the fact that some players wear their Quid or Mistletoe year-round suggests that their appeal isn't limited to a few weeks of the year.
Unfortunately the Tertium Quid or the prizes from the previous years will not be available anymore.
forums.anarchy-online.com /showthread.php?p=4363831   (820 words)

  
 Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Ter’tium Quid.
Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Ter’tium Quid.
“Sunt bipes homo, et avis, et tertium quid.
   In chemistry, when two substances chemically unite, the new substance is called a tertium quid, as a neutral salt produced by the mixture of an acid and alkali.
www.bartleby.com /81/16359.html   (113 words)

  
 KtB - The New Agnosticism?
In a contest of ideas, the midway is often marked out by a tertium quid, a third concept or term, and the possibility of reconciliation may depend upon its discovery.
Where this term is absent, the weather tends to gather heavily at the poles.
Preternaturally self-assured, Jordan arrived for the ceremony robed in the tertium quid itself: a large, new American flag.
www.killingthebuddha.com /dogma/newagno.htm   (1925 words)

  
 Negative utilitarianism : Edmund Gurney (1847 - 88)
He also did most of the hard work on (and took the flak for) a huge collection of anecdotal evidence, which was not well received in scientific circles then or later.
But considering that his depression was growing worse, he had failed in three careers, his high hopes for psychical research were probably foundering, and he had reached the age when mid-life crises tend to loom, I don't think we would have to look that far.
A strong argument against suicide is Gurney's concern for his wife and daughter, whom he would not want to hurt; in Tertium Quid he writes about the bitterness of bereavement.
www.utilitarianism.net /gurney/index.html   (1911 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling's short story: At the Pit's Mouth
Quid's; that she was too much of a child to understand the dangers
Quid watched and talked for a couple of hours while the grave was
The Tertium Quid stood at the head of the grave, and stared
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 Product design can never be inherently distinctive
It could be either product packaging, which the consumer normally thinks indicates origin, or else some tertium quid that is akin to product packaging.
Though many would argue that since the product packaging was “awkward”, the court should have classified the trade dress as design, the tertium quid category provided the much-needed cover for its decision.
After the Two Pesos case, the lower courts recognised that a plaintiff is entitled to claim that restaurant décor is packaging or tertium quid.
www.wptn.com /trademark_vol5is3/tmark_026_vol5is3.htm   (2433 words)

  
 'Style' has many meanings for dancers Hagen & Simone
The script bounces along, thanks to the assured and energetic performances of its authors, taking surprising turns, finally moving from biography into autobiography as the postmodern narrative pinwheels into reminiscences that seem intended to supply poignancy.
Ironically, "Tertium Quid," an excerpt of a 2001 work by Stephanie Gilliland and the Los Angeles dancers of her company, Tongue, starts out with a fashion show.
Throughout the piece, the eight-person company also showed a remarkable ability to adapt to dynamic changes in choreography that had them throwing themselves ecstatically onto their kneepads one moment, writhing in midair the next.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/28/DDGDE8F34O1.DTL&type=printable   (532 words)

  
 Online Etymology Dictionary
"one pound sterling," 1688, British slang, possibly from quid "that which is" (1606, see quiddity), as used in quid pro quo (q.v.).
1530, unexplained phonetic variant of chew; the noun meaning "that which is chewed" (esp. a quid of tobacco) first recorded 1709.
The word's overuse in legal jargon supposedly gave it the association with trivial argument.
www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=quid+pro+quo&searchmode=none   (204 words)

  
 Baylor Institute for Faith and Learning
Embodying commitments true to Baylor University's mission, the Institute for Faith and Learning aims to cultivate "careful reflection, rigorous scholarship, and vital practice that substantively unite the life of the mind and the faith of Christians." By so doing, it embraces a confident and positive outlook regarding the relation between faith and reason.
At the cusp of the third millennium, Baylor University stands on the shoulders of such giants in its commitment to a tertium quid that stands against all ruinous forms of breaking apart the unity of faith and reason.
This tertium quid, or "third something," provides a distinct alternative to the problematic supposition that faith renders reason irrelevant and the misleading assumption that reason is sufficient apart from faith.
www3.baylor.edu /IFL/newsletter/200504/200504.htm   (1896 words)

  
 Hakim Bey: Millennium
Five years ago it still remained possible to occupy a third position in the world, a neither/nor of refusal or slyness, a realm outside the dialectic--even a space of withdrawal;--disappearance as will to power.
If the tong provides a possible form for the new propaganda of the deed, then it must be confessed that mere aesthetic withdrawal (disappearance as will to power) cannot provide sufficient heat to hatch the egg of its secrecy.
All that was once tertium quid is now (or soon will be) engaged either in capitulation or in opposition, as conflagration, as uprising against the management of desire and imagination within the englobed enclosure of the one world.
www.left-bank.org /bey/millenni.htm   (4362 words)

  
 Tertium Quids: Welcome to TertiumQuids.org
Contact Us Tertium Quids is an independent, nonpartisan, issue advocacy organization that promotes legislative efforts to expand individual opportunity and free markets, while reducing the size, role, and cost of government in Virginia.
Through grassroots education and mobilization, as well as direct contact with local and state officeholders, Tertium Quids redefines the parameters of the public debate in favor of individual liberty, dynamic entrepreneurial capitalism, private property, the rule of law, and constitutionally limited government.
A coalition of Virginia citizen groups and legislators has come together to introduce the Freedom and Prosperity Agenda – a citizens’ agenda for better state government that protects the properties, incomes, and futures of all Virginians.
www.tertiumquids.org   (282 words)

  
 Who's Got the Magic?
But as with most forced choices, there's a tertium quid that Pennock has conveniently ignored, and that when properly understood shows that the real magician here is in fact Pennock and not Johnson.
The tertium quid here is intelligent design, which is entirely separable from creationism.
No doubt, Pennock's constant conjoining of the two serves a useful rhetorical purpose, rallying the troops, giving Darwinists a single common enemy, and keeping biology safe from teleology (indeed, it has become a point of grammatical correctness with Pennock never to use "intelligent design" without "creationism"--"intelligent design" properly being an adjective that only modifies "creationism").
www.leaderu.com /offices/dembski/docs/bd-magic.html   (1747 words)

  
 Voice Of Dance - Insights - Features
In Tertium Quid, after prowling an imaginary catwalk in heroin-chic costumes, the dancers writhe interminably through stage fog.
When forced to pick between two opposing choices, the tertium quid represents the third alternative." An enterprising grad student could probably make sense of this, but the burden of meaning weighs on the viewer.
The segments—one with the men’s ankles shackled inside jacket arms, another (for the women) to lively Middle Eastern-esque electronic music—rely too much on an atmosphere of profundity.
www.voiceofdance.org /Insights/insights.trans.col.cfm?LinkID=32000000000000202   (785 words)

  
 Quid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up quid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
An abbreviation of the Latin "tertium quid", meaning "third party" and used to denote an anti-Madison part of the Democratic-Republican Party of the United States between 1805 and 1811.
A rolled up cylinder of fresh leaves (such as Salvia Divinorum) to be chewed and held in the mouth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quid   (128 words)

  
 Amazon.com: QUID   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Quid Novi - Sweden by Quid Novi - Magazine Subscription - 4 issues / 12 months
Quid Pro Quo: This for That by John Burgess (Paperback - Oct 2001)
Tertium Quid by Robert Lax (Paperback - Jan 2005)
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 Tecumseh, Hartford Convention, Tertium Quids from list 08   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He asserted that he and his supporters were neither Hamiltonians nor Jeffersonians but a "third something"--a "tertium quid" adhering to the States Rights which Jefferson had abandoned.
The Quids never presented a substantial challenge to the main Republican Party.
Yet they felt that Madison and Jefferson had retreated from the state's rights position and tried to deprive Madison of the Democratic- Republican presidential nomination in 1808.
www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mwfriedm/terms/michael6.html   (603 words)

  
 Most misrepresented Victorian? - Literature Network Forums
Kipling speaks of a character called "Tertium Quid." So I looked up the words in the dictionary and other than the definitions for "Quid" which didn't seem to fit, I'm lost to determine why the name "Tertium Quid" was used at all.
In the Kipling book, it probably really depends on the context of the phrase "tertium quid," but I hope this makes it easier to understand.
By the bye, the phrase "tertium quid" (lit.
www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?p=107241   (2066 words)

  
 tertium quid definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
tertium quid definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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 Voice Of Dance - Insights - Features
We had a couple of stale crumpets, one of them, Nancy Karp’s La Traversa, a singularly indigestible 2003 opus; and we had an excerpt from a forthcoming Capacitor epic that still needs plenty more time in the oven.
The jury cannot render a verdict on the Gilliland excerpt until the company that calls itself TONGUE performs the complete Tertium Quid (2001) at ODC Theater Aug. 26-28.
What one saw Thursday was a trio for three buffed guys (Jay Bartley, Bradley Michaud, Bryan Wallk), stripped to waist and hampered by sport coats binding their legs.
www.voiceofdance.org /Insights/insights.trans.col.cfm?LinkID=32000000000000196   (810 words)

  
 Erowid Library : The Erowid Review » Ploughing the Clouds — The Search for Irish Soma
This axis mundi is the tertium quid that connects the polarity of sky and earth, or the human world and the world of the gods.
Yet entheogens are potentially the antithesis of matter, because when combined with the nervous system of the seeker, the poet at heart, the two (the entheogen and the mind of the seeker) become a third, they become one, the tertium quid.
And this synthesis transcends matter itself in a reconciliation of heaven and earth, an amalgamation of body and soul.
www.erowid.org /library/review/review.php?p=207   (1534 words)

  
 1988 jaguar xj6 - Choose and Buy
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 NOTES ON EARLY CHRISTOLOGICAL DOCTRINES STARR
The two natures are distinct but intimately conjoined (synapheia) to form one prosopon.
Problems: Christ is neither fully human nor fully divine, but a third mixed sort of thing (a tertium quid).
Both types of view canvassed above seem to leave open the possibility of understanding Christ as an “indwelled” or “assumed” man, with consequences of that arrangement determined by way of the competing conceptions of how the divine could be related to the human.
faculty.fullerton.edu /bstarr/CHRISTOLOGY.NOTES.htm   (1297 words)

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