id est
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Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."
From Time Magazine Archive
The more specific term i.e., short for the Latin id est, means “that is.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
It is testified also by other in other words, and to the like sense, that “Echis id est vipera sola ex serpentibus non ava sed animalia parit.”
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William
