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Brewer's: Viz
A contraction of videlicet. The z is a corruption of , a common mark of contraction in the Middle Ages; as hab—i.e. habet; omnib—i.e. $$$; vi—i.e. videlicet.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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