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videlicet en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /vɪˈdɛlɪsɛt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vidēlicet, which itself is a contraction of vidēre licet, meaning "it is permitted to see".

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Namely, to wit, that is to say (used when clarifying or naming the preceding item or topic)
   • —[…]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, →ISBN:
   • Videlicet,a Brothell, or ſo forth. c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

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namely