1789,Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to James Madison, 28 March, inThe Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 1, ed. Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker, University of Wisconsin Press, 1976, page 217:
Present him if you please in my name to [John] Henry, [William] Grayson and all ourquondam acquaintances and be assured that any civilities he receives from you will be gratefully remembered by me.
For the sleeper on the couch was not Akeley at all, but myquondam guide Noyes.
2020 September 1,A. O. Scott, “‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin?”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:
A few hundred pages after faintly praising me[…] the book’s narrator (aquondam critic with nothing nice to say about Charlie Kaufman) challenges me to a barroom argument about cinema.
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimilated ° Rare ‡ Only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative. * Old Latin; ridiculed by most grammarians in later stages.
“quondam”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"quondam", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
