tertium quid in a sentence

Examples

1. Randolph was the Jeffersonian leader in Congress from 1801 15; he later broke with Jefferson and formed his own " Tertium Quids " faction because he thought the president no longer adhered to the true Jeffersonian principles of 1798.
2. "' John Randolph "'( June 2, 1773May 24, 1833 ), known as "'John Randolph of Roanoke "', was a Old Republicans " or " Tertium Quids ", an arch-conservative wing of the Democratic-Republican Party who wanted to restrict the role of the federal government.
3. In this Lanham Act case, the Court, when discussing product packaging vs . product design, referred to the type of trade dress in its earlier " Two Pesos " decision as " some tertium quid " that may be a mutation of product packaging and product design & mdash; a " third thing ."