Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. That is to say; namely.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To wit; videlicet; namely. Abbreviated scil. or sc.
Wiktionary
- adv. namely, to wit, as follows
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.
Etymologies
- From the Latin scīlicet. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin scīlicet, contraction of scīre licet, it is permitted to know : scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots + licet, third person sing. of licēre, to be permitted. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But the cause of this imperfection has been fully laid open by no party, -- 'scilicet', that in divines of both parties of the Reformers, the Protestants and the Detestants, there was the same relic of the Roman 'lues', -- the habit of deciding for or against the orthodoxy of a position, not according to its truth or falsehood, not on grounds of reason or of history, but by the imagined consequences of the position.”
“Publicius includes a mnemonic alphabet, later recycled by Johannes Romberch in Congestorium artificiose memorie (1533) and emulated by Robert Fludd in Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica (1621), that evokes comparison to several items in the Urbino studiolo (fig. 4.18).”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Diagram of the human mind, from Robert Fludd (1574-1637), Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica (Oppenhemii: Ære Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1617-21).”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Monochord from Robert Fludd (1574-1637), Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica (Oppenhemii: Ære Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1617-21).”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“From Robert Fludd (1574-1637), Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica (Oppenhemii: Ære Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1617-21).”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“III. coloribus pingere ex tribus pigmentis angularibus Mayerianis, cinnabari scilicet, coeruleo montano et flauo regio mixtis.”
“[4094] Chirurgicus medico quo differt? scilicet isto,”
“In loca detrusi sunt infra caelestes orbes in aerem scilicet et infra ubi Judicio generali reservantur.”
“Haec si apud votarios, monachos, sanctos scilicet homunciones, quid in foro, quid in aula factum suspiceris? quid apud nobiles, quid inter fornices, quam non foeditatem, quam non spurcitiem?”
“Carnificinam exercent, one saith they tyrannise over men's consciences more than any other tormentors whatsoever, partly for their commodity and gain; Religionem enim omnium abusus (as [6405] Postellus holds), quaestus scilicet sacrificum in causa est: for sovereignty, credit, to maintain their state and reputation, out of ambition and avarice, which are their chief supporters: what have they not made the common people believe?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scilicet’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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SCI -words
scintilla is the most favoured one
with 95 listings
ironically more than a scintilla of recognitionsciaenid, sciaenoid, sciamachy, sciarid, sciatic, sciatica, sciatical, science, scienced, scient, scienter, sciental and 70 more...
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i.e., Latin
Latin terms sometimes more commonly known in English by their abbreviations alone.
vice versa, versus, videlicet, vide infra, verbi gratia, voce, pro tempore, per procurationem, pluta paper, post meridiem, paper, opere citato and 14 more...
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wit
with wit mess (between less & ness)
wit, wot, wote, wost, wist, weeting, sense, wite, witticism, insulse, wittiness, wittiness witness and 31 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Appellationes Latinae
Latin terms
quidnunc, experimentum crucis, cui bono, carpe diem, pons asinorum, sine qua non, lux et veritas, oculus uterque, ancora imparo, mirabile visu, pro forma, paucis verbis and 108 more...
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Lispers' Nemeses
ascesis, specificities, susurrus, resipiscence, isthmus, abscissin, faithbook, phosphorescence, sassafrass, psithurism, phthisical, cissy and 42 more...
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ananda's list
selcouth, arenicolous, eximious, sciophilous, cynosure, manumit, eclode, diapason, anacrustic, stramash, unguiculation, clishmaclaver and 38 more...
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