q.d.

Christ stops her fleering mouth with the dung of her own unchaste conversation, charging her with that infamous sort of life she had hitherto lived: q.d. "Thou, for thy impudent adulteries, hast suffered divorce from five husbands already; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband, but an adulterer."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

That which is added by Elizabeth, verse 44, the babe leaped in the womb for joy, signifies the manner of the thing, not the cause: q.d. it leaped with vehement exultation.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

"Lift up your eyes (saith he) and look upon the fields," &c. pointing without doubt towards that numerous crowd of people, that at that time flocked towards him out of the city; q.d. "Behold, what a harvest of souls is here, where there had been no sowing beforehand."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

I would take this expression for a tacit severe threatening pronounced, not without some scorn and indignation against him: q.d. "I know well enough what thou art contriving against me; what thou doest, therefore, do quickly: else thy own death may prevent thee, for thou hast but a very short time to live, thy own end draws on apace."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Kattath, Joshua 19: 15, which, in the vulgar dialect, was called Katanath, as the Seventy render it, and the Jerusalem Talmudists affirm; or whether by a diminutive kind of word Katanah, he would intimate the smallness of the town: q.d. "Cana the Less."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

But this question of our Saviour hath respect to the sabbath; q.d. "Wouldst thou be healed on the sabbath day?"

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Christ had said, "For this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth": q.d. "I will not deny but that I am a king, as thou hast said; for for this end I came, that I should bear witness to the truth, whatever hazards I should run upon that account."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Accidit autem quadam die [q.d. _omitted_, R2] quod mater ipsius

The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints Anonymous

[Ts ` ao Kung sums up very well: "Emerge from the void [q.d. like" a bolt from the blue "], strike at vulnerable points, shun places that are defended, attack in unexpected quarters."] 7.

The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi

Forby tells us, for "arable land which has been laid down in grass more than two years, q.d. _old-land_."

Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 Various