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
When the party arrived, they found Messrs. Skinner and Catspaw—"arcades ambo; id est, blackguards both,"—awaiting them.
From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s
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
Philip le Bell, yea, in the old Latine Bellum was that same with pulchrum; and war was called bellum, ironice, quasi minime bellum, id est, minime pulcrum.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall
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