Middle English Dictionary Entry
vidē̆licet adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | vidē̆licet adv. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
That is to say, namely.
Associated quotations
- a1456 Marmaduke SSecr.(Ashm 59)220/17 : Kepe my doctryne…videlicet, þat is to seye, spare þe blode of man-kynde to shedde.
- (?1464) Acc.Howard in RC 57452 : These ben the percellis that my maystyr Syr John Howard was asyngnyd…to receyve…the wyche my sayd mastyr hathe leyd doun now off late tyme lyke as folwyth…videlicet, Ferst, in mony lent to certayn men off howsold…To Nycholas Melyngton, xiij s. iiij d., [etc.].