rare. [a. F. ubiquiste (= Sp., Pg. ubiquista), f. L. ubīque everywhere: see -IST.]
† 1. (See quots.) Obs.
[1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Ubiquiste, a Divinity-Doctor that belongs to no particular College in the University of Paris.]
1721. Bailey, Ubiquist [from prec.].
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v., In the University of Paris,… the Ubiquists are called simply Doctors in Theology.
2. = UBIQUITARIAN sb. 2.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v., All the Ubiquists, however, are not agreed: Some of ’em, and among the rest the Swedes, hold that Jesus Christ, even during his Mortal Life, was every where.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sci., etc., Ubiquists, or Ubiquitarians, in Ecclesiastical History, a school of Lutheran divines; so called from their tenet that the body of Christ was present in the Eucharist in virtue of his divine omnipresence.
