\Sta"tus in` quo"\, Status quo \Sta"tus quo"\ .
[L., state in which.]
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.