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Idiomatic expression initially spelled out differently, in other words
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that is to say
Word definitions for that is to say in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. as follows [syn: namely , viz. , videlicet ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. (context conjunctive English) in other words. (non-gloss definition: Used to introduce a clarification, simplification, or explanation)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Say \Say\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Said (s[e^]d), contracted from sayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Saying .] [OE. seggen, seyen, siggen, sayen, sayn, AS. secgan; akin to OS. seggian, D. zeggen, LG. seggen, OHG. sag[=e]n, G. sagen, Icel. segja, Sw. s["a]ga, Dan. sige, ...
Usage examples of that is to say.
It was now the family of Hans himself, that is to say, his uncles, his cousins-german, who offered us hospitality.
Our constant and successive descents had taken us quite thirty leagues into the interior of the earth, that is to say that there were above us thirty leagues, nearly a hundred miles, of rocks, and oceans, and continents, and towns, to say nothing of living inhabitants.
At last, after three long and weary hours of navigation, that is to say, about six o'clock in the evening, we found a place at which we could land.
Over the crest - that is to say, some miles away - a line of black, fantastic-shaped rocks of quite another character showed themselves.
They were being effeminated and corrupted - that is to say, absorbed in the foul, sickly enveloping forms.
Then there is the comparatively modern idea that cosmic evolution is all designed to bring about the sort of results which we call good -- that is to say, the sort of results that give us pleasure.
We shall still be prevented by our feeling that we must be the centre of the universe from admitting that misfortune has merely happened to us without anybody's intending it, and since we are not wicked by hypothesis, our misfortune must be due to somebody's malevolence, that is to say, to somebody wishing to injure us from mere hatred and not from the hope of any advantage to himself.