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
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
Here id est occurs three times, once in full, and twice represented by the common contraction .i., which is universally used in MSS. of Irish origin for the introduction of a gloss.
From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by R.A. Stewart MacAlister
Peter Martyr reports the assertions of the followers of Guacamari that they were Taynos not Caribs: “Se Tainos, id est, nobiles esse, non Canibales, inclamitant.”
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson
