qd.
qd. is the alternative form of q.v..
qd. is the abbreviation of quod.
Meaning of q.v.
Adverb (1)
q.v. (not comparable)
- quod vide; which see (advises the reader to look up a mentioned text for further information).
- This is described in more detail in Brown’s book on the subject (q.v.).
Adverb (2)
q.v. (not comparable)
- as much as you wish
Meaning of quod
Verb (1)
quod (third-person singular simple present quods, present participle quodding, simple past and past participle quodded)
- To confine in prison.
- An intelligent costermonger, who was with me when I saw the two brothers, told me that “a costermonger would rather be thought to have come out of prison than out of a workhouse,” for his “mates” would say, if they heard he had been locked up, “O, he’s only been quodded for pitching into a crusher.”1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861
Verb (2)
quod
- Quoth.
- “Why,” quod her friend, “would ye not willingly have gone with your company, if God should so have suffered it?”1563, John Foxe, “Actes and Monuments”, in The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period, published 1868, Volume 8, Part 1, page 422
Questions about qd.
- What is qd. the alternative form of?
- Qd. is the alternative form of q.v..
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Adapted from Wiktionary: qd. (page history and authors); q.v. (page history and authors); quod (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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