I cannot find a definition for "viz." which I have seen on many occasions through the years, seeming to mean "for example" or "such as" or something of that kind.

I'd like to get a definition if possible. Thank you all.

WELCOME, AKERLEY

viz : namely (Used to introduce examples, lists, or items.)
Function: abbreviation
Etymology: Latin videlicet

NB: there are 42 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word viz listed at OneLook.com (YCLIU!)

You might even find out how the delicet part became [i[z[/i].

I see.

ou might even find out how the delicet part became z.

Why doesn't this set off the peevometry alarums like ATM machine? A 'proper' abbreviation for videlicet should obviously be vid., not viz. if only normative grammarians were consistent.

I have seen vid. used occaisionally...what always confused me was the use of viz a viz...

what always confused me was the use of viz a viz...

I once baited a French co-worker by asking him what he thought of the way Americans pronounced coup de grace as coup de gras.

Where you see dat?

Ha! Here is an excerpt from an obscure, unpublished work, with corrected spelling of Defoe, who was a writer but probably not an actor:

Shocking as this may be, I will admit that I once made a faulty assumption from not looking something up. In reading Defoe, I had always taken his viz. to mean vis-à-vis. One day while looking something else up somewhere in the V’s, on a whim I looked for viz. To my surprise, Defoe’s term turned out to be an abbreviation for videlicet, which means ‘that is to say’ or ‘namely’, [and thus very much like id est]. My interpretation of vis-à-vis was reasonably useful by one of its three definitions, but not what Defoe wrote. So, even a literary snob can stumble on a forehead-smacking discovery.

The answer to a consonant-heavy query is that it leaps the fence between empty-headed and curiously odd combined with an archaic nature. Perhaps "vid." was already taken in 1722.