Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quasi"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
quasi
adj : having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi
contract" [syn: {quasi(a)}]
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