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English
Adverb
vice versâ (not comparable)
- Archaic spelling of vice versa.
1817, S T Coleridge, “ Chapter XXIV. Conclusion.”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, , →OCLC, page 308:f the Doctrines, the sum of which I believe to constitute the Truth in Christ, be Christianity, then Unitarianism is not, and vice versâ:
1841, British and Foreign State Papers, volume 1, part 1, pages 516–517:His Britannic Majesty, and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, do stipulate and agree, that there shall be a perfect reciprocity on the subject of the Duties and Imposts to be paid by the Ships and Vessels of the High Contracting Parties, within the several Ports, Harbours, Roads, and Anchoring-places belonging to each of them; to wit, that the Ships and Vessels of the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty shall not pay any higher Duties or Imposts (under whatsoever name they be designated or implied) within the Dominions of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, than the Ships and Vessels belonging to the Subjects of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal shall be bound to pay within the Dominions of His Britannic Majesty, and vice versâ.
1867, The record of zoological literature, volume 3, page 60:Baird then proceeds to treat of the eastward movement of American birds, and its influence on the ornis of Greenland and Europe, and vice versâ.
1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 20:Even in the same sentence we often find a purely Japanese construction interrupted by a phrase which it is impossible to consider as anything but clumsy Chinese; while, vice versâ, his Chinese contains expressions not to be understood without a knowledge of Japanese.