a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Of the nature of, connected or concerned with, a quodlibet or quodlibets.

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1580.  Fulke, Answ. P. Frarine, 1. The president of the Quodlibeticall disputations of Louane.

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1602.  Watson (title), A Decacordon of Ten Qvodlibeticall Questions concerning Religion and State.

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c. 1665.  R. Carpenter, Pragm. Jesuit, 47/2. Quodlibetical Brains have Consciences of all sorts and sizes.

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1710.  trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 16th C., I. III. 401. He publicly read Divinity upon those that they [call] Quodlibetical Questions.

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1791–1823.  D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1858), I. 62. They at length collected all these quodlibetical questions into enormous volumes.

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  Hence Quodlibetically adv.

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

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1682.  Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor., ii. (1756), 58. Many positions seem quodlibetically constituted.

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