sb. and a. [ad. mod.L. ubīquitārius, f. L. ubīque everywhere. Hence also F. ubiquitaire, Sp. and Pg. ubiquitario.]
A. sb. 1. One who, or that which, is or can be everywhere at once. Now rare.
1587. Holinshed, Chron., III. 579/2. There must needs be an errour … vnlesse we will grant the king and queene … to haue beene Hîc ibi simul, which priuilege is granted to none but Ubiquitaries.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., II. iv. A Nymph … all motion, an ubiquitarie, Shee is euery where.
1615. P. Small, in Farr, S. P. Jas. I. (1848), 332. Time is of the Ubiquitaries’ race,—Time’s here, Time’s there, Time is in every place.
1638. Bp. Mountague, Art. Enq. Norwich, D [?]. The Bishop is no Ubiquitary, that hee can discover every thing done.
1657. R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 63. Tables, cupbords, beds, stools, all are covered with them [sc. ants], so that they are a kind of Ubiquitaries.
1826. Sporting Mag., XVII. 262. Could it have been possible to have been an ubiquitary, I should have been with the Warwickshire, as well as with the Duke’s hounds.
† b. spec. (See quot.) Obs.–1
1615. J. Stephens, Ess. & Charac., xiv. 189. A Vbiquitarie Is a Iourney-man of all Trades, but no sauer because no seller vp.
† c. A clergyman having no settled benefice but taking duty anywhere. Obs.
1646. T. Edwards, Gangrena, I. 72. In a word, our Sectaries are become Pluralists, Nonresidents, and some of them Ubiquitaries, and are well paid for it.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. viii. 117. The Priest being himself unbenefic’d, and an Ubiquetary, made bold … to pay the Non-Residentiaries for not stopping his mouth with a Living.
1663. Bp. Nicholson, Expos. Catech., Ep. Ded. A 3. These are not Ubiquitaries, and consequently are forced to be Non-residents.
† 2. = UBIQUITARIAN sb. 2. Obs.
1585–7. T. Rogers, 39 Art. (1625), 19. We altogether dissent … from the Germaine Vbiquitaries … saying that Christ as man, is not onely in heauen, but in earth too at this instant.
1595. in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. IV. 116. A condemnacion of other reformed Churches, that did not agree with the Ubiquitaryes.
1614. Bp. Hall, No Peace with Rome, § 181. Either Aquinas is false, or the papists vbiquitaries.
1654. Jer. Taylor, Real Pres., 156. To this the Answer is the same in effect which is given by the Roman Doctors, and by the Ubiquitaries, whom they call Hereticks.
1681. R. L’Estrange, Apol. Protestants, IV. i. 98. There is no collecting from their Writings whether they were Consubstantiators or Ubiquitaries.
1709. Strype, Ann. Ref., xxv. 252. Martyr in his lifetime dedicated to him his dialogue … against the Ubiquitaries.
B. adj. † 1. = UBIQUITARIAN a. 1. Obs.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 213. Besides the absurdity of their Ubiquitarie Chimera.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 721. The Iesuites deride the ubiquitarie Protestants, for that they could not finde how Christ should be present in all places by his Humanity, unlesse his Humanity were in every place where his Godhead is.
2. = UBIQUITOUS a. a. Of single persons, or the Deity. Now rare or Obs.
1609. Ev. Woman in Hum., IV. i., in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. Nay looke up, beholde yon Christall pallace. There sits an ubiquitarie Judge.
1631. Massinger, Emperor East, I. ii. She can conjure, And I am her ubiquitary spirit.
1647. Ward, Simple Cobler, 57. I can as well admit an ubiquitary King as another.
1673. Dryden, Marr. à la Mode, I. i. Besides the Court, she’s the most eternal Visiter of the Town: And yet manages her time so well, that she seems ubiquitary.
1707. J. Stevens, trans. Quevedo’s Com. Wks. (1709), 393. Then Jove said [to Olympus], Thou Vbiquitary God, shoot thy self into the World, and in a trice drag Fortune hither by the Ears.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 244, ¶ 6. I remember at a full Table in the City, one of these ubiquitary Wits was entertaining the Company with a Soliloquy.
b. Of individual things, qualities, etc.
1625. Jackson, Creed, V. xxvii. § 2. The fruition of His presence … cannot make saints or angels so capable of this ubiquitary knowledge as personal union with Him … might make Christ’s body of ubiquitary local presence.
1640. Howell, Dodona’s Gr., 43. For wealth and an ubiquitary commerce none can exceed her. Ibid. (1645), Twelve Treat. (1661), 338. Their faculties have a kind of ubiquitary freedom, though the body be never so under restraint, as the Authors is.
1713. Steele, Englishman, No. 22. 146. The ubiquitary Assistance of the Deity is celebrated by … the Psalmist.
1738. Phil. Trans., XL. Suppl. 41. Whether God himself be not the immediate, acting, ubiquitary Cause of centripetal power.
1823. Palmerston, Opin. & Policy (1852), 28. The surest though it may be the slow resource of Spain, is the desultory but ubiquitary resistance of her population.
c. Of a kind or class of persons or things.
1610. Donne, Pseudo-Martyr, § 35. 141. These vbiquitary Monks haue the aduantage of all others.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., III. xxiv. 220. It was in vain to erect any structure therein to restrain and keep his Ubiquitary beams.
1669. Baxter, Power Mag. & Ch. Past., I. (1671), 6. The Clergy are so numerous, subtile, ubiquitary and potent.
1709. Mrs. Manley, Secret Mem. (1720), II. 150. The God of Love finds little more Difficulty in Subduing the Grave than the Gay; the Desires he gives are alike Ubiquitary.
1853. G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., I. 121. A few, such as the Dandelion and the Daisy, may be said to be almost ubiquitary.
a. 1865. J. Young, Life J. Welsh, V. i. (1866), 280. Scotsmen, in all ages roving and ubiquitary, were, at that time, settled in unprecedented numbers in … France.
1888. Co-operative News, 4 Aug., 784. As I passed on I met two more of the ubiquitary fraternity.
3. Extending to all quarters; extremely wide or extensive. rare.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 194. [English] by its promiscuous and ubiquitary borrowing consisteth almost of all languages.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Barkshire, I. (1662), 92. It is impossible for any Author of a Voluminous Book consisting of several persons and circumstances … to have such Ubiquitary intelligence, as to apply the same infallibly to every particular.
1803. Ann. Rev., I. 257. The research displayed is ubiquitary, the materials are judiciously proportioned.
