to wit

Idioms and Phrases

That is to say, namely, as in There are three good reasons for not going, to wit, we don't want to, we don't have to, and we can't get a reservation . This expression comes from the now archaic verb to wit , meaning “know or be aware of,” not heard except in this usage. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

The study of verbs is meagre, for in such a system there is only one real working verb, to-wit, the quasi-verb "is."

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Luke gives the name of the angel, to-wit: Gabriel, but he appears to Mary instead of to Joseph.

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I realized that the court, to-wit, the fifty senators then entitled to seats in the senate, was of rather peculiar construction.

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There are two things, two blessed doubts, that we know as little about as we ever did, to-wit: Who wrote the Letters of Junius?

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Yet all over the world they mean the same, to-wit, the strong taxing the weak without allowing representation.

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Related Words

• especially
• i.e.
• particularly
• specially
• specifically