expressly Copy link • expressly: dĭsertē: Liv.: v. explicitly. Phr.: e. for that purpose, ad id ipsum, Liv. (v. very): he nowhere says so e., but he says what is tantamount to it, non usquam id quidem dicit, sed quae dicit eadem valent, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 24.