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ubiquity|juːˈbɪkwɪtɪ|
[ad. mod.L. ubīquitas (cf. F. ubiquité (17th c.), Sp. ubicuidad, Pg. ubiquidade), f. L. ubīque everywhere: see -ity.]
1. Theol. The omnipresence of Christ or of his body, as maintained by the Ubiquitarians.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 173 If we found as good authoritie for the vbiquitie, or pluralitie of placing of his body as we finde for the feeding vs thereby into eternall life. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii. §10 Out of which vbiquitie of his body they gather the presence thereof with that sanctified bread and wine. a1617Bayne On Eph. (1618) 388 We see Vbiquity and all real Presence..ouer⁓throwne. 1624Bedell Lett. ii. 48 One side fetches arguments against vbiquitie from these places, and thereupon saith, the question is about these Articles. 1674Hickman Quinquart. Hist. (ed. 2) 131 It seems, if men be never so violent for Ubiquity,..if they be but against Predestination, they shall pass for..Melancthonians. 1798Hey Lect. Div. 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. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. ii. ii. §23 After the death of Melanchthon, a controversy, relating to the ubiquity, as it was called, of Christ's body, proceeded with much heat. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2414 Ubiquity is the doctrine..of the omnipresence of the humanity, and more especially of the body, of Christ.
2. The capacity of being everywhere or in all places at the same time:
a. In general use.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. liii. §4 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. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Vbiquitie, presence of a person in all places. 1625Earl Carlisle in Fortescue Papers (Camden) 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. 1655Cleveland Gen. Poems, etc. (1677) 142 Knowing that no place in the Nation is so remote, as not to share in the Ubiquity of your Care. 1713Clarke Several Letters (1716) 16 The Reason why you do not apprehend Ubiquity to be necessarily connected with Self-Existence. a1721Prior On Coronation i, Giving Poets to partake (Like those Deities they make) Of infinite Ubiquity. 1796Coleridge Destiny of Nations 45 One all-conscious Spirit, which informs With absolute ubiquity of thought..All his involved Monads. 1823Scott Quentin D. xvi, The attention and activity which Quentin bestowed..had in it something that gave him the appearance of ubiquity. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. x. 427 Their vigilant adversary, who seemed now in their eyes to possess the powers of ubiquity. 1864Bowen Logic xiii. 422 It is admitted that this doctrine of the ubiquity of the mind to the body is incomprehensible.
b. As an attribute of God.
Variously taken as synonymous with, or as distinct from, omnipresence.
1607J. Davies Summa Totalis E 2, For, so they must by his Immensitie, Which is the cause of his Vbiquity. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. ii. 36 It is an acknowledgement of one of the incommunicable Excellencies of God, viz. his Ubiquity. 1704Swift T. Tub viii, This God, though endued with Ubiquity, was yet supposed to possess one peculiar Habitation. 1748Hartley 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. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. vii. vi. (1864) IV. 167 The impartial ubiquity of God, the equable omnipresence of the Redeemer and the Holy Spirit throughout the whole universe. 1885L. Abbott in Chr. World Pulpit XXVIII. 179 Most Christians do not believe in the omnipresence of God; they only believe in His ubiquity.
c. Law. (See quots.)
1765Blackstone Comm. I. vii. 260 A consequence of this prerogative is the legal ubiquity of the king. His majesty, in the eye of the law, is always present in all his courts, though he cannot personally distribute justice... From this ubiquity it follows, that the king can never be nonsuit. 1841in Peters Rep. Supr. Crt. U.S. XV. 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.
†3. Locality, region. Obs.—1
1633B. Jonson Love's Welcome Wks. (1640) 275 A solemne Wight As you should meet In any street, In that Ubiquitie. |
