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Definitions for Hoc

[1] for the special purpose or end presently under consideration: a committee formed ad hoc to deal with the issue.
[2] concerned or dealing with a specific subject, purpose, or end: The ad hoc committee disbanded after making its final report.
[3] in this sign shalt thou conquer: motto used by Constantine the Great, from his vision, before battle, of a cross bearing these words.
[4] after this; afterward.
[5] after this, therefore because of it: a formula designating an error in logic that accepts as a cause something that merely occurred earlier in time.
[6] because of this.
[7] as much as this; to this extent.
[8] and all this (or that) sort of thing.
[9] for a particular purpose only; lacking generality or justification an ad hoc decision ; an ad hoc committee
[10] logic the fallacy of assuming that temporal succession is evidence of causal relation

Words nearby Hoc

ad hocad eundem gradum, ad extremum, ad feminam, ad fin., ad gloriam, ad hoc, ad hockery, ad hominem, ad inf., ad infinitum, ad init.

Origin of Hoc

ad hocFirst recorded in 1550–60, ad hoc is from the Latin word ad hōc for this

Words that may be confused with Hoc

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, ad, hocad, hoc, a, posteriori, a, priori, ex, post, facto, prima, facie

Word origin for Hoc

post hocfrom Latin, short for Post hoc ergo propter hoc after this, therefore on account of this