To All Intents And Purposes

Definition: To All Intents And Purposes

1. In every practical sense; "to all intents and purposes the case is closed"; "the rest are for all practical purposes useless".

Synonyms within Context: To All Intents And Purposes

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Completeness	Adverb: completely; Adjective: altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground.
Equality	Adverb: equally; Adjective: pari passu, ad eundum, caeteris paribus; in equilibrio; to all intents and purposes.
Intention	In pursuance of, pursuant to; quo animo; to all intents and purposes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Familiar Quotations: To All Intents And Purposes

Author	Quotation
Charles Lamb	The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Historic Usage: To All Intents And Purposes

Author	Date	Quotation
US Constitution	1791	The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translation: To All Intents And Purposes

Language		Translations for "to all intents and purposes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		szemmel láthatólag. (various references)

Pig Latin		otay allay intentsay anday urposespay

Romanian		de fapt (actually, as a matter of fact, as it is, for that matter, in effect, in point of fact, in reality, morally, practically, virtual), în toate privinţele (everyway). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.