videlicet
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin, from vide (stem of videre (“‘see’”)) + licet (“‘it is permissible’”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /vɪ'dɛlɪsɛt/
[edit] Adverb
videlicet (not comparable)
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- That is to say; viz.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
- My father did speak much of the day he was not speedily to forget, videlicet May Day of 1517, when there was great apprentice rioting against insolent foreigners.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford: