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Webster 1913 Edition
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