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Adverb
  1. (formal) That is to say; namely; specifically.
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These dates coincide with none of the four great hinges on which the solar year revolves, to wit, the solstices and the equinoxes.
Whereas the soaker is an utter stranger to wit and mirth, and no friend to either.
In the case of EU Member States, the legal act in question is a directive, i.e. an act that imposes an obligation of results on the recipients, to wit the Member States.
We have two variables in our data capturing farm capital, to wit the size of the household's land and the number of cattle.
Teucer son of Telamon was the first to kill his man, to wit, the warrior Imbrius, son of Mentor, rich in horses.
The grey heron was anyway considered to be the best of a group of birds with similar lifestyles, to wit other herons and night herons, egrets, bitterns, and cormorants.

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