scilicet
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of scilicet
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin scīlicet, short for scīre licet “it is permitted to know”
Example Sentences
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No matter whether any man speake nor noe: we know he killed the man, and she comanded him, ergo they are guilty; ergoe that must be their confession, scilicet that they are guilty.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Vbi scilicet domi in foco montano delitescere piget, & exire, pelagúsque sed sine rate, tentare iuuat, seseque in glaciei frustella colligere.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
At Highworth, at the signe of the Bull, at one Hartwells, I have been credibly enformed is to be seen a scull of-a vast bignesse, scilicet half as big again as an ordinary one.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey
The paradox is restated below in regard to individuation.146.Materia ... dupliciter accipitur, scilicet, ut signata et non signata.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
Only when he rendered scilicet as 'forsooth,' King erupted.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling
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