Usually means: Namely; that is to say.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. to wit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. to wit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. to wit: Collins English Dictionary
  4. to wit: Vocabulary.com
  5. to-wit, to wit: Wordnik
  6. to wit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. to wit: Wiktionary
  8. to wit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. to wit: Dictionary.com
  10. To Wit: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. to wit: FreeDictionary.org
  12. to wit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. to wit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. To wit: World Wide Words
  15. to wit: Merriam-Webster

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. to wit: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. to wit: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. to wit: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (to wit)

▸ adverb:  (formal) That is to say; namely; specifically.

Similar:
namely, i.e., videlicet, viz., specifically, that is, specif., specificatively, thereto, especifically, more...

Opposite:
namely, specifically, that is to say, in other words

Adjectives:
2, such like, ipso facto, so, all that, else, other, els, still, otherly, rather

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Similar:
namely, i.e., videlicet, viz., specifically, that is, specif., specificatively, thereto, especifically, more...

Opposite:
namely, specifically, that is to say, in other words

Adjectives:
2, such like, ipso facto, so, all that, else, other, els, still, otherly, rather



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