Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of
videlicet , usually read ‘namely.’
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb To wit; that is; namely.
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- adverb Alternative form of
viz. .
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- adverb as follows
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Examples
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Some points to ponder: There is no "O" in Arabic, viz; QUr-an not KOran, MUhammad not MOhammad, (although the Arabs gave us the Zero, not to be confused with the O.)
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Some points to ponder: There is no "O" in Arabic, viz; QUr-an not KOran, MUhammad not MOhammad, (although the Arabs gave us the Zero, not to be confused with the O.)
Rudy Surrogate: "I Don't Subscribe To The Principle That There Are Good Muslims And Bad Muslims" 2009
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Yglesias actually got to the point of posing a pertinent question at least, viz., is there “any kind of actual reason why Israel should continue expanding settlements,” where by “actual” I suppose he means “rational” or “reasonable.”
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Book of very ancient nocturnal _sangs_; 1 Pistel bec; 2 Ancient ræding bec; 1 for the use of the priest; also the following books in Latin, viz.,
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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Polish performs the office frequently assigned to h in English, viz., that of softening the preceding consonant without possessing any further power of its own.
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What I do want to do is say that I really like a plugin for Bazaar called viz (aka vizualize).
unknown title 2008
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Aurobindo while expounding on the famous Gita verse "Yada Yada hi dharmasya" viz "I Descend in every Age..." has mentioned that the purpose of the Avatar is not just to rid the world of the forces of injustice and tyranny which can be better done by the Divine's agents,such as Kings,soldiers but also to establish a new evolutionary force in this world.
The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have already accomplished the metaphysical victory Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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"Congress shall have the power to enforce this article," viz: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote without denial on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States 1883
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LAWTON moved to amend the last proviso, by adding the following after the words "white person or persons," viz: "Over the age of twelve years from planting and cultivating for themselves, by their own labor, a like quantity of cotton for each hand so employed."
Journal of the Senate of South Carolina: Being the Session of 1862. South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate 1863
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Tableau Software wants data junkies to do the 'viz'
Netflash Eric Lai 2010
larry_kunz commented on the word viz
I'm fond of viz, although it's been out of vogue in the U.S. for the last 200 years or so. But recently I began working with a programming team in India, and to my delight I discovered that they use viz, at least in written communication, as much as Jefferson or Madison ever did.
I was distressed to see "viz a viz" used in place of vis-a-vis in the examples. Ugh!
May 19, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word viz
I also love using viz.! I do so in many places, viz. literary essays, school papers, and self-referencing Wordnik comments. Anyone know what it actually stands for?
May 19, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word viz
"viz. adv. Before 1540, abbreviation of videlicet. The z represents the ordinary Medieval Latin symbol for the ending -et. Earlier (now obsolete) English forms of the abbreviation were vidz. and vidzt."
- From The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology
May 19, 2010
reesetee commented on the word viz
Ruzuzu beat me to it. :-)
May 19, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word viz
I see -- and videlicet, evidently, means 'that is' or 'to wit' or 'namely'...which, I guess, is the meaning of viz. as well.
May 19, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word viz
Oh! Oh! So, the Century offers us this wonderful tidbit: "The z here, as in oz., represents a medieval symbol of contraction (a symbol also represented by a semicolon), originally a ligature for the Latin et, and (and so equivalent to the symbol &), extended to represent the termination -et and the enclitic conjunction -que, and finally used as a mere mark of abbreviation, equivalent in use to the period as now so used, viz being equivalent to vi., and not originally requiring the period after it."
I think this would be a Tironian et. Cool!
September 21, 2011