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单词 ubiquity
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ubiquityn.

Brit. /juːˈbɪkwᵻti/, /jᵿˈbɪkwᵻti/, U.S. /juˈbɪkwᵻdi/
Forms: 1500s–1600s ubiquitie, 1500s–1600s vbiquitie, 1500s–1700s vbiquity, 1600s– ubiquity.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ubiquitas.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin ubiquitas omnipresence of Christ or of his body (a1564), omnipresence of God, the soul, etc. (1590 in the passage translated in quot. 1595 at sense 2a, or earlier) < classical Latin ubīque anywhere, everywhere, wherever ( < ubi where (see ubi n.) + -que : see though adv.) + -tās (see -ty suffix1, -ity suffix). Compare Middle French, French ubiquité omnipresence (of God) (1548; rare before late 17th cent.; non-religious use is not paralleled until considerably later than in English).
1. Theology. The omnipresence of Christ in his human nature, as maintained by the ubiquitarians; the doctrine of this omnipresence. Cf. real presence n.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Lutheranism > Lutheran groups and sects > [noun] > ubiquitism
ubiquity1572
ubiquitism1617
ubiquitarianism1842
ubiquism1844
1572 A. Golding in tr. T. de Bèze Bk. Christian Questions & Answers Ep. Ded. sig. Aiiiv The Vbiquitie or Eueriwherbeing of Christs manhod mainteined by Brentius and certeine others.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 178 Out of which vbiquitie of his body they gather the presence thereof with that sanctified bread and Wine.
a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Epist. First Chapter Paul to Ephesians (1618) 388 We see Vbiquity and all reall presence..ouerthrowne.
1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 430 It seems if men be never so violent for Ubiquity,..if they be but against Predestination, they shall pass for..Melancthonians.
1741 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) X. 49 He spoke with great warmth against the doctrine of Ubiquity.
1798 J. Hey Lect. Divinity IV. iv. xxviii. §10. 325 Luther..supported it [sc. consubstantiation], by what was called Ubiquity; by affirming, that the Son of God was every where, ubique.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. ii. 103 After the death of Melanchthon, a controversy..relating to the ubiquity, as it was called, of Christ's body, proceeded with much heat.
1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2414 Ubiquity is the doctrine..of the omnipresence of the humanity, and more especially of the body, of Christ.
1953 Church Hist. 22 208 The Romans..reject ubiquity sine conditione.
1999 M. Ellingsen Reclaiming Our Roots 320 The Lutheran conception of the ubiquity of Christ's body..logically follows the Lutheran claim that Christ is really present in every celebration of the sacrament.
2.
a. As an attribute of God, the soul, etc.: the fact of being present in all places; omnipresence. Now chiefly Theology.Usually treated as a synonym of omnipresence, but sometimes distinguished (cf. quots. 1840, 1885).
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > omnipresence
ubiquity1595
omnipresence1601
omnipresency1647
1595 E. Wilcocks tr. A. Polanus Substance Christian Relig. i. 5 Vbiquitie [L. ubiquitas] is an essentiall property of God, by which he is alwayes present euery where in all things.
1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. E2 For, so they must by his Immensitie, Which is the cause of his Vbiquity.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. 36 It is an acknowledgement of one of the incommunicable Excellencies of God, viz. his Ubiquity.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. 34 By God's Omnipresence, or Ubiquity, we must be understood to mean that his Power and Knowlege extend to all Places.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 45 One all-conscious Spirit, which informs With absolute ubiquity of thought..All his involved Monads.
1840 C. G. Finney Skeleton Course Theol. Lect. I. ix. 74 Some understand by the omnipresence of God, not essential ubiquity, but that he merely knows all things.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vii. vi. 222 The impartial ubiquity of God, the equable omnipresence of the Redeemer and the Holy Spirit throughout the whole universe.
1885 L. Abbott in Christian World Pulpit 28 179 Most Christians do not believe in the omnipresence of God; they only believe in His ubiquity. They localise Him in their imagination in a land ‘far, far away’, send their prayers out into the void to find Him, and wait for an answer to come back.
1940 J. Laird Theism & Cosmol. 18 It is very hard to deny God's ubiquity if he be the supreme cosmic agent.
2010 W. Vondey in J. K. A. Smith & A. Yong Sci. & Spirit iv. 77 The traditional notion of the ubiquity of God seems to suggest that God is everywhere rather than somewhere.
b. As an attribute of an individual person: the ability, or apparent ability, to be everywhere at once; (now chiefly) the fact of being seen or encountered everywhere. Cf. note at ubiquitous adj. 2b.
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1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. liii. 112 In the one there is attributed to God..death, whereof diuine nature is not capable; in the other vbiquitie vnto man, which humane nature admitteth not.
1625 Earl Carlisle in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 214 I could wishe..that you would borrow so muche of ubiquity as that your persone could be in the several places where your sufficiensy is so necessary.
1685 M. Prior On Coronation James II & Queen Mary 1 Giving Poets to partake (Like those Deities they make) Of Infinite Ubiquity.
1758 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 30 May in Lett. to Son (1774) II. 413 Kniphausen..sees all places and all people, and is ubiquity itself.
1787 J. G. Simcoe Remarks Trav. Marquis de Chastellux 26 The Marquis's vivacious language is but ill applied to a general or a sovereign, unless..they were endowed with ubiquity to prevent them [sc. cruelties], and did not make use of it.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. vi. 133 The attention and activity which Quentin bestowed..had in it something that gave him the appearance of ubiquity.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. x. 367 Their vigilant adversary, who seemed now in their eyes to possess the powers of ubiquity.
1924 O. Onions in C. Asquith Ghost-Book (1926) ii. 258 By virtue of his instantaneousness and ubiquity, he had already taken a complete conspectus of the ship.
1945 Life 17 Sept. 118 The only alarming thing about him is a degree of ubiquity whereby he seems to be present every time two or three people are gathered together for any purpose.
2009 Guardian 15 May 32/3 Her ubiquity spanned from Oprah to the New York Times.
c. As an attribute of a class or type of person or thing, or of a quality, idea, substance, etc.: the fact or condition of being present everywhere or apparently everywhere; widespread presence; prevalence, pervasiveness.
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the world > space > place > presence > [noun] > being everywhere at the same time
ubiquity1637
ubiquitariness1654
everywayness1674
everywhereness1674
omnipresentness1727
totipresence1768
omnipresencea1822
ubiquitousness1852
1637 T. Drant Divine Lanthorne 36 Light hath in it a kinde of ubiquity, it fills all places.
1657 J. Cleveland Petition (single sheet) It is in this confidence that I address to your Highness, as knowing no place in the Nation is so remote, as not to share in the ubiquity of your care.
1729 S. Switzer Introd. Gen. Syst. Hydrostaticks & Hydraulicks I. ii. xv. 199 This Ubiquity and Pressure of Air is also visible in a drinking Glass.
1786 W. Young Hist. Athens ii. i. 160 The popular advocates were..irritated by the controul of government, and merely the ubiquity of the fleet.
1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet II. 69 [The] Pen..which gives ubiquity and permanence to the evanescent thought of a moment.
1855 Q. Rev. June 222 Because of its ubiquity: go where we will, there, like the house-fly or the sparrow, we find it [sc. The Times].
1950 Scrutiny 17 ii. 145 What strikes one in reading, however, is not so much the variety of these satirisms..but simply their ubiquity.
1990 Birder's World Aug. 48/1 As a result of their ubiquity and abundant seed production, these plants are also among the most important of wildlife food sources.
2010 Daily Tel. 7 May 33/3 The general culture of fear and suspicion that underwrites the ubiquity of CCTV on every high street.
d. Something that is or seems to be found everywhere; a ubiquitous thing.
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1711 B. Hampton Existence Human Soul after Death 16 They [sc. the souls of men] are subject to time and place, for otherwise they would have Ubiquity, and then the world would be full of Ubiquities.
1847 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 425/1 I remember that..some one remarked..that Maga is a ubiquity.
1968 S. K. Bailey & E. K. Mosher ESEA Pref. p. vii Like all case studies, this one is long on ‘uniquities’, short on ubiquities.
2011 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. (Late ed.) a2/2 He..built a family-run business..into a global maker of color television sets, cellphones and other ubiquities of the electronic age.
3. A place, a location. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > a locality
list?1614
ubiquitya1637
headquarters1647
region1726
locale1761
locality1770
ubity1964
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods in Wks. (1640) III. 275 A solemne Wight As you should meet In any street, In that Ubiquitie.
4. Law. The fact of being, in the eyes of the law or for legal purposes, present in all places or not limited to one place. Chiefly with reference to the legal presence of a sovereign in all his or her courts. Now historical.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > assumption feigned for argument > specific
ubiquity1689
a1625 H. Finch Law (1627) ii. i. 81 The first thing in God..is, the infinitenes of his nature... Cuius Centrum est vbique peripheria nusquam. So say our bookes, that the king in a manner is euerie where, and present in all his Courts.]
1689 T. Long Full Answer Objections for not taking Oath 4 Finch, an ancient Lawyer, did attribute to the King all the Divine Perfections, (viz)..Infinity and Ubiquity, being present in all his Courts, and in all places with all persons.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. ii. 60 Moreover the Law seemeth to attribute to the King a certain Ubiquity; that the King is in a manner every where, in all his Courts of Justice.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. vii. 260 A consequence of this prerogative is the legal ubiquity of the king... From this ubiquity it follows, that the king can never be nonsuit.
1841 R. Peters Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 15 6 The United States, in their sovereign capacity, have no particular place of domicile but possess, in contemplation of law, an ubiquity throughout the Union.
1891 H. C. Black Law Dict. 1197/2 A fiction of English law is the ‘legal ubiquity’ of the sovereign, by which he is constructively present in all the courts.
1922 Harvard Law Rev. 35 462 The state, on account of its supposed legal ubiquity, cannot be disseised.
2001 J. Greenburg Radical Face of Anc. Constit. (2006) 204 In his politic body he [sc. the king] enjoyed such transcendent powers as..ubiquity—in law he was considered virtually present in all of his courts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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