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ubiquity


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ubiquity  \U*biq"ui*ty\,  n.  [L.  ubique  everywhere,  fr  ubi  where 
  perhaps  for  cubi,  quobi  (cf.  alicubi  anywhere),  and  if  so 
  akin  to  E.  who:  cf  F.  ubiquit['e].] 
  1.  Existence  everywhere,  or  in  places,  at  the  same  time; 
  omnipresence;  as  the  ubiquity  of  God  is  not  disputed  by 
  those  who  admit  his  existence. 
 
  The  arms  of  Rome  .  .  .  were  impeded  by  .  .  .  the 
  wide  spaces  to  be  traversed  and  the  ubiquity  of  the 
  enemy.  --C.  Merivale. 
 
  2.  (Theol.)  The  doctrine,  as  formulated  by  Luther,  that 
  Christ's  glorified  body  is  omnipresent. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ubiquity 
  n  :  the  state  of  being  everywhere  at  once  (or  seeming  to  be 
  everywhere  at  once)  [syn:  {ubiquitousness},  {omnipresence}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  UBIQUITY,  n.  The  gift  or  power  of  being  in  all  places  at  one  time, 
  but  not  in  all  places  at  all  times,  which  is  omnipresence,  an 
  attribute  of  God  and  the  luminiferous  ether  only.  This  important 
  distinction  between  ubiquity  and  omnipresence  was  not  clear  to  the 
  mediaeval  Church  and  there  was  much  bloodshed  about  it  Certain 
  Lutherans,  who  affirmed  the  presence  everywhere  of  Christ's  body  were 
  known  as  Ubiquitarians.  For  this  error  they  were  doubtless  damned, 
  for  Christ's  body  is  present  only  in  the  eucharist,  though  that 
  sacrament  may  be  performed  in  more  than  one  place  simultaneously.  In 
  recent  times  ubiquity  has  not  always  been  understood  --  not  even  by 
  Sir  Boyle  Roche,  for  example,  who  held  that  a  man  cannot  be  in  two 
  places  at  once  unless  he  is  a  bird. 
 
 




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