Quā'sī

Quā'sī. [Lat.] As if; in a manner; in a certain sense or degree; having the resemblance of something;—used as a prefix or first member of a compound; as, a quasi-contract, an act obliging a party in favor of another, without any real agreement between them; a quasi-corporation, a body that has some but not all 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.