quasi
quasi (kway-sIorkway-zIalsokwah-zee). [Latin “as if”] Seemingly but not actually; in some sense; resembling; nearly. “QUASI. A Latin word frequently used in the civil law, and often prefixed to English words. It is not a very definite word. It marks the resemblance, and supposes a little difference, between two objects, and in legal phraseology the term […]