Definition of Ubiqoity

Definition of Ubiqoity

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. ubiquité.] 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.

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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

the state of appearing to be everywhere at once; omnipresence

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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