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‖ videlicet, adv. and n.|vɪˈdɛlɪsɛt, vaɪ-|
Also 7 videllicet.
[L. vidēlicet, f. vidē-, stem of vidēre to see + licet it is permissible. Cf. scilicet.
The pron. |vɪ-, vaɪˈdiːlɪsɛt| is also to some extent in use.]
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 2, , vidzt., and viz.)
1464Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 452 Alle odre percellis that are enteryd and engrosyd in my lordis book: videlicet: Ferst [etc.]. 1492in Rymer Fœdera (1711) XII. 480/1 To serve him in his Werres,..videlicet, himself, having his Custrell and Page. 1509Will in Archaeologia LXVI. 310 Massez of Requiem to be saide and song for my Soule by Preestes in maner and forme folowing videlicet Euery Freer [etc.]. 1563Foxe A. & M. 796/1 Sundry clauses, pointes, matters..: Videlicet, amonges other thinges, where the bishop offred to make particuler aunswere [etc.]. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 131 We doe not take one thing: videlicet bread. 1602T. 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. 1665in Parish Bks. St. Julian's, Salop I. 125 (MS.), Due to Nath: Clemson for work done to the Clock Videlicet for a new Spring,..for wyer and oyle, 5[s]. 1727Swift Circumcision E. Curll Wks. 1755 III. i. 165 The wisest man that ever was, and inasmuch the richest, beyond all peradventure was a Jew, videlicet, Solomon. 1769Phil. Trans. LIX. 452 To confirm farther what I say, videlicet, that the water, the more glutinous it is, the more it is disposed to become luminous. 1829Scott Rob Roy Introd., One of Rob's original profession, videlicet a drover. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. St. Odille, 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.
a1658Cleveland Wks. (1687) 100 You shall never take a Pamphleteer, one of these Haberdashers of small Wares, without his Videlicets, or his Vtpotes. Ibid., A Videlicet is an Hic Canis, it argues a Bungling Writer, as that a Painter. 1774Ld. Mansfield in Cowper Rep. (1783) 170 He has stated it to be in Minorca; with a videlicet. 1805East Reports V. 252 In Stukely v. Butler (Hob. 172) Lord C. J. Hobart speaking of the use of a videlicet, says [etc.]. 1824Stephen Princ. Pleading 313 And here, as in the case of a local fact, the insertion of a videlicet will give no help. |
