Now arch. = QUIDDITY 2.
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), II. 232. These lawiers haue … such quibs & quiddits.
a. 1613. Overbury, A Wife, etc. (1638), 188. He makes his Will in forme of a Law-case, full of quiddits.
1635. Heywood, Hierarchy, IV. 202. He … Stretches each quiddit of the Law, to finde Him culpable.
1838. Hor. Smith, Tor Hill, II. 221. Rhyming couplets, quirks, quiddits and riddles.
1855. Browning, Old Pict. Florence, xx. The first of the new … Beats the last of the old; ’tis no idle quiddit.
