videlicet

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And the duchess showed her teeth -- videlicet, smiled.

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  1. adverb That is; namely. Used to introduce examples, lists, or items.

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  • Avicenna de anima mundi, cum aliis, videlicet, Liber cujus initium est, “Inspector præcedentis libri Avicennæ.”— Expositorius Rogeri Bachonis. —  The Diary of Dr. John Dee
  • Also he valued himself for that a favorite dish with him was raw meat chopped fine with peppers and oil Storri's education--which was wide--did not suffice to cover up in him the barbarian, videlicet, the Tartar--which was wider; and when a trifle uplifted of drink, it was his habit to brag profoundly in purring, snarling, half-challenging tones. —  The President A novel
  • I cannot, I am sure, tell if it is worth marking down, that yesterday at dinner-time I was strangely haunted by what I would call the sense of pre-existence,--videlicet, a confused idea that nothing that passed was said for the first time, that the same topics had been discussed, and the same persons had stated the same opinions on the same subjects. —  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
  • It was only afterwards, when I got home, and hung the labelled key on my library wall, that I realised that old Jaffery and myself had, at least, one thing in common--videlicet, the keyless habit. —  Jaffery
  • Chrysostomus et ii Patres "iustitiam fidei foede" videlicet "obscurarunt. —  Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities
 

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  1. Latin vidēlicet, contraction of vidēre licet, it is permitted to see : vidēre, to see; see vide + licet, third person sing. present tense of licēre, to be permitted.

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  1. Latin, for videre licet, it is permitted to see: videre, see; licet, it is permitted: see vision and license. Cf. scilicet.
 

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/vɪˈdɛlɪsɛt/
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