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videlicet

[wi-day-li-ket, vi-del-uh-sit] / wɪˈdeɪ lɪˌkɛt, vɪˈdɛl ə sɪt /


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"Yet helpeth He the poor, videlicet, His Church and the religious, who are vowed to holy poverty, out of misery, videlicet, the oppression of barbarous customs, and maketh them households like a flock of sheep."

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley

The poor world is almost six     thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man     died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.

From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For in truth, such requests appear to me not much unlike the advice given to hypochondriacal patients in Dr. Buchan's domestic medicine; videlicet, to preserve themselves uniformly tranquil and in good spirits.

From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Appetiva le rape," says his good son; videlicet, he was fond of turnips.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso

After many tossing thoughts he fell upon the knack of it, videlicet, that it was a heiroglyphick diamant faux, and that it behoved to be read thus, Tell, false lover, why hast thou forsaken me.

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 Lord John Lauder Fountainhall


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