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Examples
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"Videlicet," said Colepepper, with a swaggering air, "let us hear the temptation."
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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Videlicet hoc ipso, qu騞 omnia, qu� illorum vsus non admittit, aut qu� non viderunt, aut experti sunt antea, continu� damnent.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Videlicet hoc ipso, quòd omnia, quæ illorum vsus non admittit, aut quæ non viderunt, aut experti sunt antea, continuò damnent.
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Videlicet, sir, this week a fellow captive is minus a finger and thumb -- and all for oversight of six annas {the anna is the 16th part of a rupee}.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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Videlicet propter divitias inditum id nomen quasi est.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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"Videlicet, some fourscore waiting damsels and milkmaids, warranted honest by my Lord Warwick," I muttered.
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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_Videlicet, _ That the time for lecturing to the London West-End, I was given everywhere to understand, is _from the latter end of April_ (or say April altogether) _to the end of May: _ this is a fixed Statistic fact, all men told me: of this you are in all arrangements to keep mind.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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And it was he that might rightly say, _Veni, vidi, vici_; which to _anatomise_ in the vulgar, (_O base and obscure vulgar_!) _Videlicet_, he came, saw, and overcame ...
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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_Videlicet_ Pope! — “He said further to Drummond, Shakespeare wanted art, and sometimes sense; for in one of his plays he brought in a number of men, saying they had suffered shipwreck in Bohemia, where is no sea near by a hundred miles.”
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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[27] Videlicet; Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Mode, each consisting of three subdivisions.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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