Crossword clues for that is to say
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, Lith. sakyti; cf. OL. insece tell, relate, Gr. 'e`nnepe (for 'en-sepe), 'e`spete. Cf. Saga, Saw a saying.]
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To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things.
Arise, and say how thou camest here.
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To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson.
Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say?
--Shak.After which shall be said or sung the following hymn.
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To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to.
But what it is, hard is to say.
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To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles.
Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double, Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?
--Shak.It is said, or They say, it is commonly reported; it is rumored; people assert or maintain.
That is to say, that is; in other words; otherwise.
Wiktionary
adv. (context conjunctive English) in other words. (non-gloss definition: Used to introduce a clarification, simplification, or explanation)
WordNet
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.