it is safe to say that he was not consciously using the Latin adverb alibi, elsewhere, nor is the printer who puts in a viz. always aware that this is an old abbreviation for videlicet, i.e., videre licet, it is permissible to see. A nostrum is "our" unfailing remedy, and tandem, at length, instead of side by side, is a university joke.
INFLECTED LATIN FORMS
Sometimes we have inflected forms of Latin words. A rebus[8] is a word or phrase represented "by things." Requiem, accusative of requies, rest, is the first word of the introit used in the mass for the dead—
"Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine,"
while dirge is the Latin imperative dirige, from the antiphon in the same service—
"Dirige, Domine meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam."
The spelling dirige was once common—
"Also I byqwethe to eche of the paryshe prystys beying at my dyryge and masse xiid."
(Will of John Perfay, of Bury St. Edmunds, 1509.)
Query was formerly written quære, seek, and plaudit is for plaudite, clap your hands, the appeal of the Roman actors to the audience at the conclusion of the play—