viz.

In the sense in which we employ the word viz. for a perennial stream of considerable size, a river is a much rarer object in the East than in the West.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Yglesias actually got to the point of posing a pertinent question at least, viz., is there “any kind of actual reason why Israel should continue expanding settlements,” where by “actual” I suppose he means “rational” or “reasonable.”

Matthew Yglesias » Israel’s Irrealism on Settlements 2009

Book of very ancient nocturnal _sangs_; 1 Pistel bec; 2 Ancient ræding bec; 1 for the use of the priest; also the following books in Latin, viz.,

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

Davies, [8] who also came thence with Kidd, and all Kidd's men, are positive he is the man and that he went by his true name viz. Gillam, all the while he was on the voyage with them, and Mr. Campbel the

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

Polish performs the office frequently assigned to h in English, viz., that of softening the preceding consonant without possessing any further power of its own.

Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources 1889

We still see the remains of this system in abbreviations such as viz. (videlicet, i.e., “namely”) and Rx (recipe), where the “z” and the “x” represent the squiggle showing that the last letters of the word had been dropped.

A Brief History of Shorthand - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

-- I need not tell you I didn't notice the racing _much_, but I did take an interest in _two_ of the contests; viz. -- (I don't know what "viz." means -- but I _do_ know I am using it correctly) -- The

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 Various

MS. translation of the fourth treatise of "The Way to Christ," viz. "of the Supersensual Life."

Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

There was "viz.," for instance, instead of "that is," in the last sentence.

'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

Shelley "-- viz.," his simultaneous perception of Power and Love in the

Robert Browning 1892