英和和英

副詞

to wit (not comparable)

1. (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…

   Among the arrests is a man charged with possession of stolen goods, to wit: 50 beer crates.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section VII:

     Thus, I had so long suffered in this quest,
     Heard failure prophesied so oft, been writ
     So many times among "The Band"─to wit,
     The knights who to the Dark Tower's search addressed
     Their steps - that just to fail as they, seemed best,
     And all the doubt was now—should I be fit?

   • 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.

同意語

• namely, scilicet, videlicet; see also Thesaurus:specifically or Thesaurus:in other words