quasi
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Quasi \Qua"si\ [L.]
As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree;
having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an
adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a
quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has
arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi
corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the
peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that
which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi
historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.
[1913 Webster]
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
QUASI. A Latin word in frequent use in the civil law signifying as if,
almost. It marks the resemblance, and supposes a little difference between
two objects. Dig. b. 11, t. 7, 1. 8, Sec. 1. Civilians use the expressions
quasi-contractus, quasi-delictum, quasi-possessio quasi-traditio, &c.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "quasi":
affected, apishly, apocryphal, approximate, approximating,
approximative, artificial, as it were, assumably, assumed,
assumedly, assumptively, bastard, bogus, brummagem, byname, close,
cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited,
diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered,
epithetic, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned,
fictitious, fictive, forged, formal, garbled, hokey, honorific,
hypocoristic, illegitimate, imitation, imitatively, in name only,
in seeming, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, much at one,
much the same, near, nearly the same, nominal, nominative,
onomatopoetically, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, plagiarized,
presumably, presumedly, presumptively, pretended, pseudo, put-on,
queer, reputedly, same but different, seemingly, self-called,
self-christened, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called,
soi-disant, spurious, supposably, supposedly, suppositionally,
supposititious, supposititiously, synthetic, synthetically, tin,
tinsel, titivated, titular, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine,
unnatural, unreal, warped, would-be
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