videlicetadv.n.
/vᵻˈdɛlᵻsɛt//vʌɪˈdɛlᵻsɛt/ A. adv.
That is to say; namely; to wit: used to introduce an amplification, or more precise or explicit explanation, of a previous statement or word. (Cf. the abbreviated forms vid. adv., videl. adv., and viz. adv. and n.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adverb] > namely or that is to say
namelya1200
i.a1300
namandlya1400
scilicet?a1425
videlicet1464
scil.a1500
viz.a1543
innuendo1564
videl.1589
sc.1607
i.e.1662
vid.1676
v.g.1678
1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 452 Alle odre percellis that are enteryd and engrosyd in my lordis book: videlicet: Ferst [etc.].
1492 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1711) XII. 480/1 To serve him in his Werres,..videlicet, himself, having his Custrell and Page.
1513 Last Test. of J. de Veer in Archaeologia (1915) 66 310 Massez of Requiem to be saide and song for my Soule by Preestes in maner and forme folowing videlicet Euery Freer [etc.].
?1551 Sessions against Gardiner in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 796/2 Sundry clauses, pointes, matters..: Videlicet, amonges other thinges, where the bishop offred to make particuler aunswere [etc.].
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 131 We doe not take one thing: videlicet bread.
1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 27 The words of our sauiour following the former in S. Mathew videlicet: I wil geeue thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen.
1665 in Parish Bks. St. Julian's, Shropshire I. 125 (MS.) Due to Nath: Clemson for work done to the Clock Videlicet for a new Spring,..for wyer and oyle, 5[s].
1732 A. Pope Strange Relation E. Curll in J. Swift et al. Misc.: 3rd Vol. ii. 47 The wisest Man that ever was, and inasmuch the richest, beyond all peradventure, was a Jew, videlicet Solomon.
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 452 To confirm farther what I say, videlicet, that the water, the more glutinous it is, the more it is disposed to become luminous.
1829 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) I. Introd. p. lx One of Rob's original profession, videlicet a drover.
1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Odille in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 258 Then let's act like Count Otto, and while one survives, Succumb to our She-Saints—videlicet wives!
B. n.
The word itself as used to introduce an explanation or amplification, esp. in legal documents.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > specific definition or description > word introducing specifying clause, etc.
scilicet1588
videliceta1658
viz.1794
a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 100 You shall never take a Pamphleteer, one of these Haberdashers of small Wares, without his Videlicets, or his Vtpotes.
a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 100 A Videlicet is an Hic Canis, it argues a Bungling Writer, as that a Painter.
1774 Ld. Mansfield in Cowper Rep. (1783) 170 He has stated it to be in Minorca; with a videlicet.
1805 E. H. East Rep. Cases King's Bench 5 252 In Stukely v. Butler (Hob. 172) Lord C. J. Hobart speaking of the use of a videlicet, says [etc.].
1824 H. J. Stephen Treat. Princ. Pleading 313 And here, as in the case of a local fact, the insertion of a videlicet will give no help.
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