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‖ scilicet, adv. (n.)|ˈsaɪlɪsɛt|
[L. scīlicet = scīre licet ‘it is permitted to know’.]
To wit; that is to say; namely. Abbreviated scil. or sc.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 335 Looke to fore in þe firste book Capitulo Grecia, scilicet El[l]adia. 1547Hooper Declar. Christ & Off. xii. L vij b, God sentithe an other mystres to scole man, scilicet aduersitie. 1601[W. Watson] Dial. Sec. Priest & Lay Gentl. Pref. *iij b, Vntill they heare the case decided: and who they are, scil. the secular priests or the Iesuits. 1643in J. Simon Ess. Irish Coins (1749) 120 They..shall stamp the same on the one side with these letters (scilicet) C.R. for Carolus Rex. 1652Gaule Magastrom. xviii. 160 The ultimate end of the universe, sc. to know, and love God. 1855J. S. Watson tr. Xenophon's Anab. i. x. §3 note, [For πρὸς τῶν Ἑλλήνων] Brodæus suggested πρὸς τὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων, scil. στρατόπεδον.
†b. Used ironically: Forsooth.
1539Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 207 That holy (scilicet) father of R[ome].
c. as n. The word ‘scilicet’ or its equivalent, introducing a specifying clause.
1650Hobart's Rep. 171 Now I come to the use of a (viz.) or (sc.) or in english (that is to say) and the nature and force of it. 1669Croke's Rep. Jas. I (ed. 2) 429 But it was adjudged, that postea convertit, is sufficient, and the scilicet is void. 1805East's Rep. V. 253 Where that which comes under a scilicet is consistent with what went before. |