videlicet

[5] Vizt is the abbreviation for the Latin word "videlicet"; it means "namely."

Letter from Robert Carter to John Pemberton, July 13, 1732 1732

(Survey Report 6801 summarizing Adm 68/195, 154r, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.) [5] Vizt. is the abbreviation for the Latin word "videlicet"; it means "namely."

Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, May 25 and July 8, 1728 1728

Ann - you have something against the word videlicet, or just its abbreviation?

In which I say who won last night's debate and almost abandon my cruel neutrality pose. Ann Althouse 2008

"But God is a just God," wrote Sir Edward Stafford, "and if with all things past, that be true that the king ( 'videlicet' Henry IV.) yesterday assured me to be true, and that both his ambassador from Venice writ to him and Monsieur de Luxembourg from Rome, that the Count Olivarez had made a great instance to the pope (Sixtus V.) a little afore his death, to permit his master to marry his daughter, no doubt God will not leave it long unpunished."

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

"But God is a just God," wrote Sir Edward Stafford, "and if with all things past, that be true that the king ( 'videlicet' Henry IV.) yesterday assured me to be true, and that both his ambassador from Venice writ to him and Monsieur de Luxembourg from Rome, that the Count Olivarez had made a great instance to the pope (Sixtus V.) a little afore his death, to permit his master to marry his daughter, no doubt God will not leave it long unpunished."

History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

"But God is a just God," wrote Sir Edward Stafford, "and if with all things past, that be true that the king ( 'videlicet' Henry IV.) yesterday assured me to be true, and that both his ambassador from Venice writ to him and Monsieur de Luxembourg from Rome, that the Count Olivarez had made a great instance to the pope (Sixtus V.) a little afore his death, to permit his master to marry his daughter, no doubt God will not leave it long unpunished."

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

"But God is a just God," wrote Sir Edward Stafford, "and if with all things past, that be true that the king ( 'videlicet' Henry IV.) yesterday assured me to be true, and that both his ambassador from Venice writ to him and Monsieur de Luxembourg from Rome, that the Count Olivarez had made a great instance to the pope (Sixtus V.) a little afore his death, to permit his master to marry his daughter, no doubt God will not leave it long unpunished."

History of the United Netherlands, 1592-94 John Lothrop Motley 1845

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

They, videlicet the two horses, seeming perfectly to understand that the rule of the place was,

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Jack, thy wit being blinded, and full of gross vapors, by reason of the perturbations of fear (which, like anger, is a short madness, and raises in the phantasy vain spectres, — videlicet, of sharks and Spaniards), mistakes our lucidity.

Westward Ho! 2007