Quasi

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quasi
       adj : having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi
             contract" [syn: {quasi(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.