Definitions
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- adverb That is to say; namely.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wit; videlicet; namely. Abbreviated scil. or sc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.
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- adverb
namely ,to wit ,as follows
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the cause of this imperfection has been fully laid open by no party, -- 'scilicet', that in divines of both parties of the Reformers, the Protestants and the Detestants, there was the same relic of the Roman 'lues', -- the habit of deciding for or against the orthodoxy of a position, not according to its truth or falsehood, not on grounds of reason or of history, but by the imagined consequences of the position.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Monochord from Robert Fludd (1574-1637), Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica (Oppenhemii: Ære Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1617-21).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Publicius includes a mnemonic alphabet, later recycled by Johannes Romberch in Congestorium artificiose memorie (1533) and emulated by Robert Fludd in Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica (1621), that evokes comparison to several items in the Urbino studiolo (fig. 4.18).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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From Robert Fludd (1574-1637), Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica (Oppenhemii: Ære Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1617-21).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Diagram of the human mind, from Robert Fludd (1574-1637), Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica (Oppenhemii: Ære Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1617-21).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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III. coloribus pingere ex tribus pigmentis angularibus Mayerianis, cinnabari scilicet, coeruleo montano et flauo regio mixtis.
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In loca detrusi sunt infra caelestes orbes in aerem scilicet et infra ubi Judicio generali reservantur.
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Haec si apud votarios, monachos, sanctos scilicet homunciones, quid in foro, quid in aula factum suspiceris? quid apud nobiles, quid inter fornices, quam non foeditatem, quam non spurcitiem?
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Carnificinam exercent, one saith they tyrannise over men's consciences more than any other tormentors whatsoever, partly for their commodity and gain; Religionem enim omnium abusus (as [6405] Postellus holds), quaestus scilicet sacrificum in causa est: for sovereignty, credit, to maintain their state and reputation, out of ambition and avarice, which are their chief supporters: what have they not made the common people believe?
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[4094] Chirurgicus medico quo differt? scilicet isto,
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