quodlibeticaladj.

1586 W. Fulke Apol. Declam. Frarine 1 in Treat. against Def. of Censure Bks. W. Charke & M. Hanmer The president of the Quodlibeticall disputations of Louane.

1600 W. Watson (title) A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions concerning Religion and State.

c1660 R. Carpenter Pragmatical Jesuit 47/2 Quodlibetical Brains have Consciences of all sorts and sizes.

1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 559 It ought to be considered, that the Quodlibetical Learning of the schools is capable enough to find Arguments for and against all sorts of Opinions.

1710 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. (ed. 2) iii. 401 He publicly read Divinity upon those that they [call] Quodlibetical Questions.

1807 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. (ed. 5) I. 95 They at length came to collect all these quodlibetical questions into enormous volumes.

1959 Eng. Hist. Rev. 74 554 Ludger Meier produces evidence of quodlibetical disputes outside the universities of the fifteenth century..in which secular canons and friars participated.

1983 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Name of Rose (1984) 185 Remaining isolated..it was not corrupted by disputation, by the quodlibetical conceit that would subject every mystery and every greatness to the scrutiny of the sic et non.

1999 C. V. Kaske Spenser & Biblical Poetics iv. 105 In these quodlibetical questions, although the Bible was not the sole..sourcebook, texts from Scripture were still brought in as one kind of supporting evidence.

1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 174 His Divisionary art, in which it is his common custome to talke quodlibetically.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 49 Many Positions seem quodlibetically constituted, and..will cut on both sides.

1958 Times 7 Mar. 10/6 So far as fair words go V.F.S. [Victory For Socialism] will toe the line quodlibetically according to the book.