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 ova sed animalia parit."
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
Cicero, writing in no rhetorical mood, declared that, 250as compared with other peoples, the Romans were far superior "in religione, id est cultu."
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Bending our steps westward again, our attention was fixed upon the attractions on the north; id est on our right hand side.
From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna S. Wisthaler
