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