Word Meanings - VIDELICET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To wit; namely; -- often abbreviated to viz.

Related words: (words related to VIDELICET)

• NAMELY
  1. By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly. Chaucer. The solitariness of man ...God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage. Milton. 2. That is to say; to wit; videlicet; -- introducing a particular
• ABBREVIATION
  One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore. (more info) 1. The act of shortening, or reducing. 2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor. 3. The form to
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• ABBREVIATED
  Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
• ABBREVIATORY
  Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
• ABBREVIATOR
  1. One who abbreviates or shortens. 2. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official
• ABBREVIATURE
  1. An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. 2. An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor.
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• ABBREVIATE
  To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. (more info) 1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.
• OFTENSITH
  Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• OFTENTIDE
  Frequently; often. Robert of Brunne.
• UNOFTEN
  Not often.
• SOFTENING
  from Soften, v. Softening of the brain, or Cerebral softening , a localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation. Three varieties, distinguished by their color and representing different stages of the morbid process,
• SOFTEN
  To make soft or more soft. Specifically: -- To render less hard; -- said of matter. Their arrow's point they soften in the flame. Gay. To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.