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Status Quo

Webster's Dictionary

The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Status Quo'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/status-quo.html. 1828.