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单词 viz
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viz.v.

Etymology: For vis , abbreviation of visit v. Compare vis n.3
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To pay a visit.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)]
seekc1200
to call in1573
call1597
to call upon ——1604
to call on ——a1616
visit1626
to make, or pay (also give) a visit1643
to pay a call1648
viz.1767
1767 T. Gray Let. 9 Aug. in Corr. (1971) III. 973 Tomorrow I go vizzing to Gibside to see the new-married Countess.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

viz.adv.n.

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s vidz., 1500s vz., 1600s vidzt., vizt.
Etymology: Abbreviation of videlicet adv. and n.The z represents the ordinary medieval Latin symbol of contraction for et or -et. For the various forms in which the abbreviation occurs in medieval Latin manuscripts, see Chassant Dict. des Abréviations and Cappelli Dizionario di Abbreviature. In reading aloud usually rendered by ‘namely’.
A. adv.
= videlicet adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adverb] > namely or that is to say
namelya1200
i.a1300
namandlya1400
scilicet?a1425
videlicet1464
scil.a1500
viz.a1543
innuendo1564
videl.1589
sc.1607
i.e.1662
vid.1676
v.g.1678
a1543 J. London Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 132 Thyder resortyd suche as..hadde any slottiche wydowes lockes, viz. here growen to gether in a tufte.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii*. 59 Both verses be of egall quantitie, vidz. seauen sillables a peece.
1596 J. Blagrave Astrolabium Vranicum sig. H2v 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.
1616 in Eastland Co. (Camden) 158 That the same [allowance] be raysed vidzt to twenty nobles apeece.
1642 D. 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 H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 250 His Matye had opportunity to effect his designe, vizt. the releife of Westchester.
a1700 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 335 In the time of the first Lady-Abbesse of that house viz Dame Francis Gawen.
a1707 A. Thornton Autobiogr. (1875) 80 The articles of agreement..vidz., that all his estate should be passed by fine and recovery.
1728 J. Swift Mad Mullinix & Timothy in Intelligencer (1729) viii. 76 Observe my Counsel, (viz.) Adapt your Habit to your Phiz.
1788 W. Cowper Let. 6 May (1982) III. 156 The ingenious contriver of it. Viz myself.
1842 R. H. Barham Auto-da-fé in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 81 The vestment aforesaid, perhaps, from its hue, viz. yellow.
1861 F. A. Paley in tr. Æschylus Seven against Thebes in Trag. (ed. 2) 740 (note) To fall..on several devoted heads successively, viz. Laius, Oedipus, and his sons.
1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xi. 276 Took with me three of Plumer's men as escort, viz. Troopers Abrahamson, White, and Parkin.
B. n. = videlicet n.
Also, a special clause in a deed introduced by viz.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > specific definition or description > word introducing specifying clause, etc.
scilicet1588
videliceta1658
viz.1794
1794 Mod. Rep. (ed. 5) 6 Table Princ. Matters at Bond 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 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. 76 If I won't give you a viz and a settlement.
1805 E. H. East Rep. Cases King's Bench 5 253 The date which gave rise to such repugnancy was laid under a viz.
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