All 3 Uses of
i.e.
in
Moby Dick
- Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.
Chpt 55-57 *i.e. = that is to say or in other words
- It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with abhorrence; that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration before mentioned: i.e. that a man should eat a newly murdered thing of the sea, and eat it too by its own light.
Chpt 64-66
- But even Solomon, he says, "the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain" (I.E., even while living) "in the congregation of the dead."
Chpt 94-96
Definitions:
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(1)
(i.e.) that is to say; or in other words
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, i.e. can refer to someone's initials.