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
Dictitabat se Religionem reformatam minime probare; ensis tantum sui mucronem esse Religiosum: id est, se non Religionis doctrinam, sed Religiosorum causam sequi.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn
Alio nomine dicitur metaphysica, id est, transphysica, quia post physicam dicenda occurrit nobis, quibus ex sensibilibus competit in insensibilia devenire.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
De Saxonibus, id est ea regione, quæ nunc antiquorum Saxonum cognominatur, venere Orientales Saxones, Meridiani Saxones, Occidui Saxones.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
