ALIAS

adv. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
adv.

Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

2.
adv.

At another time.

3.
n.

A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

4.
n.

Another name; an assumed name.


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