to wit

== English == === Etymology === Originally that is to wit (“that is to know”). See wit. === Adverb === to wit (not comparable) (formal) That is to say; namely; specifically. The directors of the company, to wit, Fred Smith and Albert Jones, inform us that… The defendant is charged with possession of a controlled substance, to wit, cocaine… July 2000, Todd Greanier, Discover the secrets of the Java Serialization API Though the animation code above demonstrates how a thread could be included as part of an object while still making that object be serializable, there is a major problem with it if we recall how Java creates objects. To wit, when we create an object with the new keyword, the object’s constructor is called only when a new instance of a class is created. ==== Synonyms ==== namely, scilicet, videlicet; see also Thesaurus:specifically or Thesaurus:in other words ==== Translations ====