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Definition of "scilicet" []

  • That is to say; namely. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "scilicet" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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)."
  • "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)."
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