I am reading Robinson Crusoe and am wondering what the word 'viz' means in the literary sense?
I am reading Robinson Crusoe and am wondering what the word 'viz' means in the literary sense?
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
Yes. That is my understanding of it as well: namely or by way of.
"You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead - dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself." E.A. Poe
"It is better to be hurt by the truth, than to be comforted by a lie." - Unknown
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