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synonyms: vicelet ???
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Definition:videlicet: "that is"; "namely". A contraction of the Latin videre licet which means "it is permitted to see".Originally spelled vi⁊. the letter "z" now substitutes for the obsolete character "⁊" (et).
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The main point of his speech, viz. that our attitude was in fact harmful, was not understood.
"My grandfather had four sons who grew up, viz.: Thomas, John, Benjamin and Josiah."
The noble gases, viz., helium, neon, argon, xenon, krypton, and radon, show an unexpected behavior when exposed to this new element.
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The other members of the household, viz., John and his wife, Leah the housemaid, and Sophie the French nurse, were decent people;
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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He says that they started with the queerest idea conceivable, viz: that all men are born free and equal
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Mellonta Tauta (1849)
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It had a conspiratorial organization, with strict subordination of members to leaders and a secret aim known only to those at the head of the order; viz., to substitute republican for monarchical institutions.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 06 (Book Six)
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they was names that was very dear to him, and mentioned often in his letters; and so he will name the same, to wit, as follows, vizz.:—Rev. Mr. Hobson, and Deacon Lot Hovey, and Mr. Ben Rucker, and Abner Shackleford, and Levi Bell, and Dr. Robinson, and their wives, and the widow Bartley.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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'I saw him enter such a house of sale,' — Videlicet, a brothel, — or so forth. — See you now; Your bait of falsehood
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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