Wizard272002
05-17-2008, 12:50 AM
I am reading Robinson Crusoe and am wondering what the word 'viz' means in the literary sense?
PeterL
05-17-2008, 02:23 PM
It probably is the abbreviation'viz'.
Viz\, adv. [Contr. fr. videlicet.] To wit; that is; namely.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc
Orpheus
06-22-2008, 12:13 AM
Yes. That is my understanding of it as well: namely or by way of.
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