videlicet
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Then we have the amiable William of Deloraine, "a stark moss-trooper," videlicet, a happy compound of poacher, sheep-stealer, and highwayman.
From Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
So Euclide, at the 1. d. ij. saith, that a rightangled parallelogramme is comprehended of two right lines perpendicular one to another, videlicet one multiplied by the other.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
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
When somebody suggested to him that it would not be likely to do him good, videlicet among his own people, "That is a reason for doing it" was his noble answer.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
I can make you acquainted with many others of a similar tendency as mis-conception; videlicet, mis-apprehension, mis-understanding, mis-contriving mis-applying, mis—” “Dear me, what a many misses,” cried Mary, “and do you know them all?”
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
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