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单词 quodlibetary
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quodlibetaryn.adj.

Forms: 1600s quodlibetary, 1600s quodlibitary, 1800s quadlibetary.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin quodlibetum , -ary suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin quodlibetum quodlibet n. + -ary suffix1. Compare earlier quodlibet n.In sense A. 2 after classical Latin quodlibet whatever or whichever you please (see quodlibet n.). Compare slightly earlier quodlibetist n. In use as adjective after French quodlibétaire (1566 in Middle French). Compare post-classical Latin quodlibetarius (1592 or earlier in a continental source). Compare quodlibetal adj. In form quodlibitary perhaps influenced by classical Latin libitum , past participle of libēre (see libitude n.); however, compare -itary in hereditary adj., military adj., etc.
Obsolete.
A. n.
1. A quodlibet (quodlibet n. 1a); a point to be debated; a minor point or quibble. Also: a person who discusses or engages in quodlibets.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > [noun] > (question for) discussion
quodlibetc1400
quodlibetary1604
1604 R. Cudworth in W. Perkins Comm. Fiue First Chapters Epist. Galatians Ep. Ded. sig. 3v The Schoolemen (I meane the Sententiaries, the Summists, and Quodlibetaries) are chiefly..to be censured, who..haue vanished away in vaine speculations.
1609 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 162 So, he having made use of all the Quodlibetaries, imputations against the other, cannot be obnoxious himself in that kinde.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. iii. 754 To salue all apparances, obiects, such quirkes and quiddities, Quodlibetaries, as Bale saith of Ferribrigge & Strode.
2. A person who follows his or her desire. rare.
ΚΠ
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Quodlibitaries, those that run after their own fancy or imagination, and do what they list.
1677 E. Coles Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Quodlibitaries, that follow their own fancies.
B. adj.
Relating to, or of the nature of, a quodlibet or quodlibets. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > [adjective] > (question for) discussion
quodlibetal1581
quodlibetical1586
quodlibeting1604
quodlibetary1647
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > [adjective] > of the nature of quodlibets
quodlibetal1581
quodlibetical1586
quodlibetarian1610
quodlibetary1647
quodlibetic1659
1647 tr. Supreme Power Christian States Vindicated 160 I will only drive this Walachrian Papist to quodlibetary fooleries.
1895 J. C. Beckwith tr. V. Hugo Nôtre Dame I. i. i. 22 Down with the disputations, cardinal, and quadlibetary [Fr. quodlibétaires].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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