sb. and a. [See UBIQUITARY and -IAN.]
A. sb. † 1. = UBIQUITARY sb. 1. Obs.
1644. Thomasson Tracts (Brit. Mus.), CLXIII. No. 12, A 4. He cannot heare … that Prince Rupert is approaching anything neare Yorke, yet they … prepare for him least that ubiquitarian steale on them unawares.
1663. R. Head, Hic et Ubique, 40. Why that Ubiquitarian, and his antick comrade Phantastick have lately borrowed monies of me.
1670. Clarke, Nat. Hist. Nitre, 19. It [nitre] is an Ubiquitarian, though no place wil scarce hold it.
a. 1734. North, Lives (1826), III. 136. And I, that was no housekeeper, became an ubiquitarian till his lordship’s death.
2. One of those Lutherans who maintained the doctrine that Christ’s body was everywhere present at all times. Chiefly in pl.
1651. Fuller’s Abel Rediv., Sohnius, 384. Confuting the Ubiquitarians … so boldly, that he chose rather to hazard banishment then to connive at errors.
1660. Hacket, Serm. at Whitehall, 22 March, 20. The unrelenting Ubiquitarians among the rigid Lutherans.
1676. Glanvill, Ess., v. 25. The Ubiquitarians defend their Errors, by denying the judgement of Reason.
1704. Norris, Ideal World, II. xii. 511. Nay, perhaps, the Ubiquitarians may of the two have the better plea.
1798. Hey, Lect. Divinity, IV. IV. xxviii. § 10. 325, note. Luther is said to have given up this ubiquity as a proof of Christ’s corporal presence in the Eucharist; but rigid Lutherans were still Ubiquitarians.
1874. J. H. Blunt, Dict. Sects, etc. (1886), 603. The Ubiquitarians are strong opponents of the Calvinistic and Zwinglian theories of the Holy Eucharist.
B. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to, holding or maintaining, the doctrine of the Ubiquitarians.
1640. Bp. Hall, Chr. Moder., II. x. 79. The Calvinists brand Schlusselburgius for an Ubiquitarian hereticke.
1673. Hickman, Quinquart. Hist., Ep. a b. The late Ubiquitarian Lutherans make a difference where they [Zwinglius and Luther] found none. Ibid., II. 366. Frederick the Prince was from his youth trained up and instructed in the Ubiquitarian Doctrine.
1882. Farrar, Early Chr., I. 350, note. The old Ubiquitarian controversy as to whether ‘the right hand of God is everywhere.’
2. = UBIQUITARY a. 2. rare.
1641. Ld. Brooke, Disc. Nat. Episc., II. ii. 71. No one man living could … Over-see it; except he could get the Pope to Transubstantiate him also, and so get a Ubiquitarian Body.
1828. Examiner, 25/1. No ubiquitarian order should exist, with duties and interests paramount to those of national allegiance.
Hence Ubiquitarianism, = UBIQUITISM.
1885. Schaff, Christ & Christianity, 75. The absolute ubiquitarianism of the Swabian school, and … the relative or hypothetical ubiquitarianism of the Saxon school.
