05-17-2008, 01:50 AM
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Ol' Fartsy
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Question!
I am reading Robinson Crusoe and am wondering what the word 'viz' means in the literary sense?
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05-17-2008, 03:23 PM
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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
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06-22-2008, 01:13 AM
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The Sound of Silence
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Yes. That is my understanding of it as well: namely or by way of.
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