Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. By the fact itself; by that very fact: An alien, ipso facto, has no right to a U.S. passport.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. By the fact itself; by that very fact.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. by the fact itself
Etymologies
- From Latin ipso + facto. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin ipsō factō : Latin ipsō, ablative of ipse, itself + Latin factō, ablative of factum, fact. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This cessatio a divinis is not imposed ipso facto by the law; it is imposed by the ordinary when and under the conditions that he judges suitable.”
“Kirby also employed the diversionary tactic of insinuating that any flaws in the genetic theory meant that those of its most vocal opponents were ipso facto correct.”
“It is called infamia juris when the law declares one to be infamous either ipso facto or after judicial sentence.”
“Lawton, for his part, could not see why he, the senior brigadier of the entire army and ipso facto the senior in Ewell's division, should not have Old Bald Head's place.”
“That is why any writing dated from a later period than the Apostolical age is condemned ipso facto to be excluded from the canon.”
“Reception of administration by a chapter without such letters brings excommunication reserved to the pope, together with privation of the fruits of the benefice; and the nominee loses ipso facto all right to the prelacy.”
“There being now no constituted association (such having entirely lapsed on the death of Mr. 'Secretary Outis'), and many of the original subscribers, who were ipso facto members, being also no longer with us, it appeared impossible to put forth the volumes as the publications of the HERCULES CLUB.”
“My idea of the mode of carrying it into execution would be this: Declare the county ipso facto divided into wards for the present, by the boundaries of the militia captaincies; somebody attend the ordinary muster of each company, having first desired the captain to call together a full one.”
“Page 19 to our Book of Common Prayer, declaring our ipso facto separation from the Church of England, by virtue of our severance from the English Government, left open, as it seems to me, a formal door for our departure now.”
“He maintains control of AJVS and the commission and ipso facto the industry; he prevents the American product from coming into Japan.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ipso facto’.
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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Latin
tempus fugit, ad absurdum, ad hominem, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, deus ex machina, in absentia, in loco parentis, in vino veritas, ipso facto, mea culpa, memento mori and 36 more...
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Pop Latin
Commonly used Latin expressions
viva voce, vide supre, vide, supra, stet, status quo, sine qua non, sine die, sic, quid pro quo, pro rata, pro bono and 24 more...
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Hapax Legomenon
For those special words that we only seem to use once in a lifetime..
hapax legomenon, schadenfreude, malapropism, ipso facto, carte blanche, tautology, pleonasm, reductio ad absurdum, tabula rasa, post hoc ergo pro..., post hoc, cum hoc ergo prop...
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Favorite Words
pablum, maundy, histrionic, adamant, ascribe, verbiage, insouciant, erudite, gregarious, superfluous, banal, obdurate and 280 more...
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compere, reticle, colophon, miasma, eldritch, raconteur, plectrum, poltroon, vestibular, pastiche, cravat, acumen and 179 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Studying
parry, palliate, cadge, dissemble, bathos, arrogate, dilatory, ipso facto, ontogeny, recondite, specious, miasma and 90 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Latin Phrases
a fortiori, ex cathedra, ex post facto, lorem ipsum, oderint dum metuant, veritas odit moras, non serviam, ipso facto, mutatis mutandis, sic semper tyrannis
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amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
Tweets
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whichbe 'If-so, fact-o.' Jun 19, 2007
sonofgroucho As in "Half a bee, philosophically, must, ipso facto, half not be." From Eric the Half A Bee by the Monty Python team:
Half a bee, philosophically, must, ipso facto, half not be.
But half the bee
has got to be,
vis a vis
its entity - do you see?
But can a bee
be said to be
or not to be
an entire bee
when half the bee
is not a bee
due to some ancient injury?
Singing...
La dee dee, 1 2 3,
Eric the half a bee.
A B C D E F G,
Eric the half a bee.
Is this retched demi-bee,
half asleep upon my knee,
some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric the half a bee.
Fiddle dee dum,
Fiddle dee dee,
Eric the half bee.
Ho ho ho,
Tee hee hee,
Eric the half a bee.
I love this hive employee-ee-ee (with buzzing in background)
bisected accidentally
one summer afternoon by me
I love him carnally.
He loves him carnally... (together)
...semi-carnally
(spoken)
The end Jan 16, 2007