Also 6 vz., 7 vizt. [Abbrev. of VIDELICET. Cf. VIDZ(T.
The z represents the ordinary med.L. symbol of contraction for et or -et. For the various forms in which the abbreviation occurs in med.L. manuscripts, see Chassant, Dict. des Abréviations, and Cappelli, Dizionario di Abbreviature. In reading aloud usually rendered by ‘namely.’]
A. adv. = VIDELICET adv.
a. 1540. J. London, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. III. 132. Thyder resortyd suche as … hadde any slottiche wydowes lockes, viz. here growen together in a tufte.
1596. Blagrave, Uran. Astrolabe, H 2 b. If the question … be of the night (vz. you shall finde it about 81/4 of clocke in the morning) and vnto that houre (vz. 81/4) … set the fiduciall line of the Planetary scale.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 28. The stupid King … mistakes the letter … and construes it to a sinister sense viz. that a quarrel was pickt with him.
1645. in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. IV. 250. His Matye had opportunity to effect his designe, vizt, the releife of Westchester.
a. 1700. in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. (1911), IX. 335. In the time of the first Lady-Abbesse of that house viz Dame Francis Gawen.
1728. Swift, Mullinix & Tim., Wks. 1755, III. II. 213. Observe my counsel, (viz.) Adapt your habit to your phyz.
1788. Cowper, Lett. Lady Hesketh, 6 May. The ingenious contriver of it, viz. myself.
1841. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Ser. II. Auto-da-fé, II. The vestment aforesaid, perhaps, from its hue, viz. yellow.
1861. Paley, Aeschylus (ed. 2), 7 agst. Thebes, 740, note. To fall … on several devoted heads successively, viz. Laius, Oedipus, and his sons.
1896. Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, xi. Took with me three of Plumer’s men as escort, viz. Troopers Abrahamson, White, and Parkin.
B. sb. = VIDELICET sb. Also, a special clause in a deed introduced by viz.
17[?]. Modern Reports, VI. 228, marg. If a bond bear date at any place abroad, that place must be stated in the declaration, with a viz. at such a place in England.
1797. Mrs. M. Robinson, Walsingham, IV. 76. If I won’t give you a viz and a settlement.
1805. East, Reports, V. 253. The date which gave rise to such repugnancy was laid under a viz.
