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scilicet

[sil-uh-set] / ˈsɪl əˌsɛt /


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In that I resemble my old friend Vespasian, who would have no alterations made when he visited his home—manente villa qualis fuerat olim, ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetudini deperiret.

From The Westcotes by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

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

Heinsius further suggested deleting est from the preceding scilicet eiusdem est 'cum tribus libris', but the change in number does not seem unduly harsh.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

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

From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling




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