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‖ si quis, n.|saɪ kwɪs|
Also si-quis, siquis.
[L. sī if, quis any one (sc. invēnerit, etc.), the opening words of the notice or bill (see def.) when written in Latin.]
1. A public intimation, notice, or bill, freq. one exhibited on a post, door, etc., requesting information, advertising something lost, or the like; in later use only Eccl., a notice, required in certain cases, intimating that a candidate seeks ordination, and asking if any one knows of any impediment.
1597Bp. Hall Sat. ii. v, Saw'st thou ever Siquis patch'd on Paul's church dore, To seek some vacant Vicarage before? 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iii. i, Enter Caualier Shift, with two Siquisses in his hand. Ibid., The aduancement of a Siquis or two. 1601Weever Mirr. Martyrs A 3 b, Set vp a Siquis, giue intelligence, That such a day shall be my Tragedie. 1611Cotgr., Plaquard,..a Bill, Siquis, or Libell stucke vpon a post, &c. 1646H. Moseley in Beaum. & Fl.'s Plays I. (1905) p. xiii, Therefore now I put up this Si quis, that whosoever hereafter happily meetes with it [etc.]. 1674Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. 48, I understood that he had sent out a general Siquis thorow his own Province. 1817C. P. Hodgson Instr. Candidates Holy Orders 3 Form of notice or ‘Si quis’, and of the certificate of the same having been published in the church of the parish where the candidate usually resides. 1843Hook Ch. Dict. 523 In the case of a Bishop, the Si quis is affixed..on the door of Bow Church. 1904Wright & Neil Protestant Dict. s.v. Ordination, If the candidate had left the university and is living elsewhere, a notice must be published... This notice is known as a si quis.
attrib.1609Dekker Gull's Horn Bk. Wks. (Grosart) II. 235 The first time that you venture into Powles.., presume not..to cast an eye to Si quis doore.
2. slang. (See quot.)
1864Slang Dict. 231 Si Quis, a candidate for orders.
Hence ‖ si quis v. trans., to advertise for.
1713Gentleman Instructed ii. x. 186, I must excuse my Depart.., otherwise he may send Hue and Cry after me, and Si quis me in the next Gazette. |