scilicet

American  

[sil-uh-set] / ˈsɪl əˌsɛt /

adverb

1. to wit; namely (used especially on legal documents, as an affidavit, pleading, etc., to verify the place of action). sc., scil., ss.

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scilicet British  

/ ˈsɪlɪˌsɛt /

adverb

1. namely; that is: used esp in explaining an obscure text or an ambiguity, or supplying a missing word

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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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scilicet

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

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

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

Only when he rendered scilicet as 'forsooth,' King erupted.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling

This emperor, according to Suetonius, constantly passed the summer in a small villa near Reate, where he was born, and to which he would never add any embellishment; ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetudini deperiret.

From Poems by Samuel Rogers