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e. g.
- Alternative form of e.g.
1682, Richard Baxter, “Mr. Dodwell’s Leviathan, or Absolute Destructive Prelacy, . Chapter III. The Consequence of Mr. Dodwell’s foresaid Doctrine.”, in An Answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke; Confuting an Universal Humane Church— , London: Thomas Parkhurst, , →OCLC, § 14, page 23:For though all is not to be done that is to be believed, yet all muſt be believed to be lavvful and duty vvhich muſt be done as ſuch: e. g. VVe cannot love God, vvorſhip him, hear and read his VVord, &c. as by Divine obedience, unleſs vve believe it to be our duty by a Divine command.
1889 July 18, The Nation; quoted in “Dr. Leidy’s Anatomy”, in William Pepper [et al.], editors, The University Medical Magazine, volume II, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: A. L. Hummel, 1889 October, →OCLC, page 45:Stated in technical linguistic terms, in this treatise pœcilonymy is avoided; e. g., instead of tænia hippocampi in one place, corpus fimbriatum in another, and fimbria in a third, the last is consistently employed and the others given as synonyms.
1913, J W H Eyre, “Schizomycetes”, in The Elements of Bacteriological Technique: A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa., London: W. B. Saunders Company, →OCLC, “Anatomy” section, pages 134–135:Stained bacilli, when examined with the polarising microscope, often show a doubly refractile cell wall (e. g., B. tuberculosis and B. anthracis).
1921 December, H L Mencken, “Tendencies in American”, in The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf, →OCLC, section 3 (Processes of Word-formation), page 185:Ad for advertisement is struggling hard for general recognition; some of its compounds, e. g., ad-writer, want-ad, display-ad, ad-card, ad-rate, column-ad and ad-man, are already accepted in technical terminology.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 668:Might he become a gentleman farmer of field produce and live stock? Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and requisite farming implements, e. g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper etc.
1963, V S Agrawala, “Social Life”, in India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī, 2nd edition, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: Prithvi Kumar, Prithivi Prakashan, →OCLC, section 3 (Marriage), page 88:The social status of the husband devolved on his wife, as implied in Pāṇini’s sūtra (Puṁyogād ākhyāyām, IV. 1. 48), i. e. a designation derived from her husband; e. g. mahāmātrī (ministrix), wife of a mahāmātra, a high government official, and gaṇakī, wife of a gaṇaka (accountant).
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Adverb
e. g.
- exemplī grātiā (for example)
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