subs. phr. (old).—1. A public notice of ordination. [These commenced “SI QUIS,” “If any.”] Whence (2) a candidate for holy orders; and (3) any public announcement. As verb. = to make hue and cry.
1599. JOSEPH HALL, Satires, II. v.
| Saws’t thou ever SI-QUIS patch’d on Paul’s church dore, | |
| To seeke some vacant vicarage before? |
1607. MARSTON, What You Will, iii., 1. My end is to paste up a SI QUIS.
1609. DEKKER, The Guls Horne-booke, chap. iv. The first time that you venture into Powles, passe through the body of the Church like a Porter, yet presume not to fetch so much as one whole turne in the middle Ile, no nor to cast an eye to SI QUIS doore (pasted and plaistered up with Seruing-mens supplications) before you haue paid tribute to the top of Powles steeple with a single penny.
1704. W. DARREL, The Gentlemen Instructed, 312. He may … SI QUIS me in the next Gazette.
