videlicet
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of videlicet
First recorded in 1450–1500; from vidēlicet, shortening of vidēre licet “it is permitted to see; it is plain to see, evidently”; see also licit ( def. )
Vocabulary lists containing videlicet
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But even he does not deny that the motive with which they were performed was of a religious, or at least superstitious nature—"Sic videlicet Liber deus placandus fuerat."
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
The third, videlicet the Philip and Mary, arrived in the Thames nigh London the eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord 1557.
From Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt
The second is my selfe, videlicet my selfe.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
Dallas and Walton, of counsel for Watson, denied that the words could be rejected, though laid under a videlicet, as they were material, and they were not repugnant to anything that went before.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
Why do I wear breeches and a cocked hat—when I am abroad, videlicet?
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
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