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ubiquitary, n. and a.|juːˈbɪkwɪtərɪ|
[ad. mod.L. ubīquitārius, f. L. ubīque everywhere. Hence also F. ubiquitaire, Sp. and Pg. ubiquitario.]
A. n.
1. One who, or that which, is or can be everywhere at once. Now rare.
1587Holinshed Chron. III. 579/2 There must needs be an errour..vnlesse we will grant the king and queene..to haue beene Hîc ibi simul, which priuilege is granted to none but Ubiquitaries. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. ii. iv, A Nymph..all motion, an ubiquitarie, Shee is euery where. 1615P. Small in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 332 Time is of the Ubiquitaries' race,—Time's here, Time's there, Time is in every place. 1638Bp. R. Montagu Art. Enq. Norwich D2, The Bishop is no Ubiquitary, that hee can discover every thing done. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 63 Tables, cupbords, beds, stools, all are covered with them [sc. ants], so that they are a kind of Ubiquitaries. 1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 262 Could it have been possible to have been an ubiquitary, I should have been with the Warwickshire, as well as with the Duke's hounds.
†b. spec. (See quot.) Obs.—1
1615J. Stephens Ess. & Charac. xiv. 189 A Vbiquitarie Is a Iourney-man of all Trades, but no sauer because no setter vp.
†c. A clergyman having no settled benefice but taking duty anywhere. Obs.
1646T. Edwards Gangrena i. 72 In a word, our Sectaries are become Pluralists, Nonresidents, and some of them Ubiquitaries, and are well paid for it. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. viii. 117 The Priest being himself unbenefic'd, and an Ubiquetary, made bold..to pay the Non-Residentiaries..for not stopping his mouth with a Living. 1663Bp. Nicholson Expos. Catech. Ep. Ded. A 3 These are not Ubiquitaries, and consequently are forced to be Non-residents.
†2. = ubiquitarian n. 2. Obs.
1585–7T. Rogers 39 Art. (1625) 19 We altogether dissent..from the Germaine Vbiquitaries..saying that Christ as man, is not onely in heauen, but in earth too at this instant. 1595in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. IV. 116 A condemnacion of other reformed Churches, that did not agree with the Ubiquitaryes. 1614Bp. Hall No Peace with Rome §181 Either Aquinas is false, or the papists vbiquitaries. 1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. 156 To this the Answer is the same in effect which is given by the Roman Doctors, and by the Ubiquitaries, whom they call Hereticks. 1681R. L'Estrange Apol. Protestants iv. i. 98 There is no collecting from their Writings whether they were Consubstantiators or Ubiquitaries. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. xxv. 252 Martyr in his lifetime dedicated to him his dialogue..against the Ubiquitaries.
B. adj.
†1. = ubiquitarian a. 1. Obs.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 213 Besides the absurdity of their Ubiquitarie Chimera. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 721 The Iesuites deride the ubiquitarie Protestants, for that they could not finde how Christ should be present in all places by his Humanity, unlesse his Humanity were in every place where his Godhead is.
2. = ubiquitous a.
a. Of single persons, or the Deity. Now rare or Obs.
1609Ev. Woman in Hum. iv. i. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Nay looke up, beholde yon Christall pallace. There sits an ubiquitarie Judge. 1631Massinger Emperor East i. ii, She can conjure, And I am her ubiquitary spirit. 1647Ward Simple Cobler 57, I can as well admit an ubiquitary King as another. 1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode i. i, Besides the Court, she's the most eternal Visiter of the Town: And yet manages her time so well, that she seems ubiquitary. 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 393 Then Jove said [to Olympus], Thou Vbiquitary God, shoot thy self into the World, and in a trice drag Fortune hither by the Ears. 1710Steele Tatler No. 244 ⁋6, I remember at a full Table in the City, one of these ubiquitary Wits was entertaining the Company with a Soliloquy.
b. Of individual things, qualities, etc.
1625Jackson Creed v. xxvii. §2 The fruition of His presence..cannot make saints or angels so capable of this ubiquitary knowledge as personal union with Him..might make Christ's body of ubiquitary local presence. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 43 For wealth and an ubiquitary commerce none can exceed her. 1645― Twelve Treat. (1661) 338 Their faculties have a kind of ubiquitary freedom, though the body be never so under restraint, as the Authors is. 1713Steele Englishman No. 22. 146 The ubiquitary Assistance of the Deity is celebrated by..the Psalmist. 1738Phil. Trans. XL. Suppl. 41 Whether God himself be not the immediate, acting, ubiquitary Cause of centripetal power. 1823Palmerston Opin. & Policy (1852) 28 The surest though it may be the slow resource of Spain, is the desultory but ubiquitary resistance of her population.
c. Of a kind or class of persons or things.
1610Donne Pseudo-martyr §35. 141 These vbiquitary Monks haue the aduantage of all others. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxiv. 220 It was in vain to erect any structure therein to restrain and keep his Ubiquitary beams. 1669Baxter Power Mag. & Ch. Past. i. (1671) 6 The Clergy are so numerous, subtile, ubiquitary and potent. 1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1720) II. 150 The God of Love finds little more Difficulty in Subduing the Grave than the Gay; the Desires he gives are alike Ubiquitary. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 121 A few, such as the Dandelion and the Daisy, may be said to be almost ubiquitary. a1865J. Young Life J. Welsh v. i. (1866) 280 Scotsmen, in all ages roving and ubiquitary, were, at that time, settled in unprecedented numbers in..France. 1888Co-operative News 4 Aug. 784 As I passed on I met two more of the ubiquitary fraternity.
3. Extending to all quarters; extremely wide or extensive. rare.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 194 [English] by its promiscuous and ubiquitary borrowing consisteth almost of all languages. a1661Fuller Worthies, Barkshire i. (1662) 92 It is impossible for any Author of a Voluminous Book consisting of several persons and circumstances..to have such Ubiquitary intelligence, as to apply the same infallibly to every particular. 1803Ann. Rev. I. 257 The research displayed is ubiquitary, the materials are judiciously proportioned. |