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so-called

so-called, so to call it, so to say:

I. In introducing a new term: qui (quae. quod) dicitur s. vocatur: or quem (quam, quod) dicunt s. vocant.

II. To soften an expression: quidam, quăsĭ quīdam. quăsĭ. etc.: I learnt from your letters your ill-timed haste--so to call it, ex tuis literis cognovi praeposteram quandam festinationem tuam, Cic. (L. G. § 385): philosophy is, so to say, the parent of all approved arts, philosophia laudatarum artium omnium quasi parens, Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 9 cf. also, ut ita dicam, ut hoc verbo utar, etc.

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