videlicet

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Latin, from vide- (stem of videre (“see”)) + licet (“it is permissible”).

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /vɪˈdɛlɪsɛt/

Adverb [edit]

videlicet (not comparable)

  1. 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.

Latin [edit]

Adverb [edit]

videlicet (not comparable)

  1. clearly, evidently
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