vid.
abbreviation
vide.
vid.
Americanabbreviation
vid
British
/ vɪd /
noun
Usage
What does vid. mean? The abbreviation vid. (with a period) is a shortening of the word vide, a Latin term meaning “see” or “refer to.” Vide is used in texts to direct a reader to a specific place elsewhere in the text or in another text. Vide is used in phrases like vide ante (meaning “see before”), vide infra (“see below”), vide post (“see after”), vide supra (see above), vide ut supra (“see as above”), and quod vide, which indicates a cross reference. Vide is also sometimes abbreviated as v. and vid without the period. The word vid without a period is more often used as a short version of the word video. Example: Additional information can be found in the preceding chapters (vid. pp. 44–48).
Example Sentences
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“I can tell you that we pulled surveillance vid. . . ”
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2019
In the end of July, vid. the 27 day theirof, Mr. Alexander Suinton, one of the under clerks of Session, dimitted his place, and was admitted ane advocat per saltum upon a bill.
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 Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord
The sense is quite plain if we remember that soldiers degraded on account of misconduct were made "pioners": vid. commentators on Othello, iii.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
The Semicolon is used before words and abbreviations which introduce particulars or specifications following after, such as, namely, as, e.g., vid., i.e., etc.:
From How to Speak and Write Correctly by Devlin, Joseph
He was chosen or nominated before, by King Ethelred and his council, at Amesbury: vid. an.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
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