?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 596 He..sealed & sent out some writs thereunto. Id[em].

1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. iv. 83 (margin) Id. ibid. c. 12.

1714 B. Bennet Several Disc. against Popery i. 187 Id Page 680.

1837 Amer. Q. Rev. Mar. 71 Notions for motives, as it would seem (id. p. 203).

1915 J. P. Arthur Hist. Watauga County viii. 88 Id. Vol. VI, pp. 996-7.

1965 J. Stone Human Law & Human Justice ii. 70 And see the criticisms by C. Fried in id. 126.

2006 B. A. Langille in V. A. Leary & D. Warner Social Issues, Globalisation & Internat. Inst. ii. 96 10 Id. p. 36 11 Id.

1892 E. B. Poulton et al. tr. A. Weismann Ess. Heredity (ed. 2) II. iv. 130 ‘Individualities’..are to be found in my ancestral plasms, or as I propose to call them shortly, the ‘Ids’ [Ger. die Ide].

1893 M. Hartog in Contemp. Rev. July 57 Each of the reproductive cells of an organism is supposed to contain in its nucleus a number of ‘ids’, and each id represents the personality of an ancestral member of the species or of an antecedent species.

1959 C. Singer Hist. Biol. (ed. 3) 556 These particulate hereditary elements, or ids as he [sc. Weismann] called them, he came to identify with small parts of the chromosomes.

2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory iii. 215 Weismann identified ids with the disk-like microsomes, recently observed as linearly ordered on chromosomes.

1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xxi. 250 The essay..describes the various allegiances the ego owes, its mediate position between the outer world and the id, and its struggles to serve all its masters at one and the same time. [Translators' note:] To translate the German ‘es’, which means ‘it’ and thus implies the impersonality of the mind apart from its ego, the Latin ‘id’ has been selected.

1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xxi. 254 Keep in mind this dissection of the mental apparatus that I have proposed, namely, into ego, super-ego and id.

1942 Ess. & Stud. 27 12 Dreams..that fulfil the much darker wishes of the Id.

1957 J. Braine Room at Top xxvi. 208 Roy, a quiet type normally, seemed to become, as Charles said, all Id when he'd had one over the eight.

1961 R. W. Lundin Personality i. 21 The id is entirely unconscious, having no contact with reality except through the ego. One may liken the id to the primitive or animal nature of man.

1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) iv. 232 The monsters are..creatures of our own ids, reflections of our own elemental fears.

1998 B. Delinsky Coast Road ix. 165 Rachel's bed was firm, and even if the scent of her on the sheets roused the devil of his id, he had always slept well when he was with her.

2003 New Republic 21 Apr. 8/1 But DeLay has put us straight, once again serving as the id of his party, the primordial lizard brain of Republican orthodoxy.

1937 M. P. Walker Sociol. Study of Calif. State Employment Service in Los Angeles County (M.A. thesis, Univ. Southern California) 64 At the time of registration the applicant is given an identification card referred to as an I. D. card bearing his name, address, occupation and I. D. number.

1955 R. J. Schwartz Compl. Dict. Abbrev. 90 Id, identification.

1965 New Statesman 3 Dec. 880/3 ‘ID's’..are pretty obscure to English readers as translations..of..papiers (identity documents).

1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 7/1 Once inside I was forced to produce my driver's licence, draft card, student I.D.

1972 J. Ball Five Pieces Jade ii. 21 Tibbs was politely asked for his ID. He produced his police credentials.

2020 USA Today (Nexis) 23 Sept. 4 d I signed a form promising I wouldn't host any parties and showed my ID through the plexiglass barrier.

1937 M. P. Walker Sociol. Study of Calif. State Employment Service in Los Angeles County (M.A. thesis, Univ. Southern California) 64 At the time of registration the applicant is given an identification card referred to as an I. D. card bearing his name, address, occupation and I. D. number.

2015 M. Zink Lies I Told i. 6 I brought the plastic ID card—Chandler High School emblazoned across the top—close to my face for a better look.

1944 A. W. Lewis Jrnl. 7 Nov. in W. H. Little Up Sun! (1992) 120 ID'd a Jap airfield under construction at Q35 R36.

1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard 63 Having Mrs Well down to ID him.

1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere xv. 135 She doubted she would be able to ID the silver-haired man if she saw him again.

2013 K. J. Fowler We are all completely beside Ourselves (2014) vi. iv. 281 The airlines had returned my suitcase..after I'd left for the Christmas vacation. Todd was still in the apartment..so he was able to ID it.

1983 Alton (Illinois) Tel. 8 Aug. a 9/3 Throughout the state, citizens can walk into so-called private clubs and order whatever intoxicating drinks they wish and rarely be ID'd or checked for membership.

1996 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 19 Sept. 8 Most people in their late 20s or older are very happy to get ID'd, but people who are 20 or 21 get offended.

2009 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 9 Oct. 12 I'm cursed with not looking old... It's a bit annoying, actually. I get ID'd for cigarettes every other day.

2021 Paisley Daily Express (Nexis) 30 Jan. 8 Bosses have vowed to..give staff further training in areas such as Challenge 25—which encourages bartenders to ID any customer who looks under-25.