id est
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Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."
From Time Magazine Archive
The more specific term i.e., short for the Latin id est, means “that is.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
The Pseudo-Luitprand gives 951, vouching for this date as an eye-witness: "Me vivente, in castro Wergeti, id est Castellon, etc."
From Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) by Charles Reginald Haines
It is testified also by other in other words, and to the like sense, that "Echis id est vipera sola ex serpentibus non ova sed animalia parit."
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
I may be truly described in the words of Descartes: I have been "res cogitans, id est, dubitans, affirmans, negans, pauca intelligens, multa ignorans, volens, nolens, imaginans etiam, et sentiens."
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull
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