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alias, adv. and n.|ˈeɪlɪəs, ˈælɪəs|
[a. L. alias ‘at another time, otherwise’; adopted in Eng. chiefly in the latter sense.]
‖A. adv. Otherwise (called or named). Now written in italics.
1535Stewart Cron. Scotl. II. 354 Callit Gillelmus alias Gilmoure. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 48 Violent testie Magistrates (alias Fooles). 1709Lond. Gaz. mmmmdlxi/4 The Parish of Stepney, alias Stebonheath. 1840Hood Up Rhine 202 Louisa Brachman, alias Sappho..threw herself from a gallery, two stories high.
B. n. (with pl. aliases.)
1. Another name, an assumed name.
1605Camden Rem. (1614) 147 An Aliàs or double name cannot preiudice the honest. 1831Edin. Rev. LIII. 364 He has been assuming various aliases. 1861Macaulay Hist. Eng. V. 92 The monk who was sometimes called Harrison and sometimes went by the alias of Johnson.
†2. Law. A second or further writ issued after a first had failed of its effect, so called from the words Sicut alias præcipimus (as we on another occasion command) which occurred in it. Obs.
1672Manley Interpr., Alias Vide Capias alias. 1714Sir W. Scroggs Pract. Courts (ed. 3) 173 Then the Plaintiff may have an Alias. 1768Blackst. Comm. III. 135 To delay his obedience to the first writ, and..wait till a second and a third, called an alias and a pluries, were issued. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Capias, An alias writ..to the same effect as the former. |