Ubiquity

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ubiquity \U*biq"ui*ty\ ([-u]*b[i^]k"w[i^]*t[y^]), 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 all places, at the same time;
        omnipresence; as, the ubiquity of God is not disputed by


        those who admit his existence.
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              The arms of Rome . . . were impeded by . . . the
              wide spaces to be traversed and the ubiquity of the
              enemy.                                --C. Merivale.
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     2. (Theol.) The doctrine, as formulated by Luther, that
        Christ's glorified body is omnipresent.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ubiquity
       n : the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be
           everywhere at once) [syn: {ubiquitousness}, {omnipresence}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "ubiquity":
     completeness, comprehensiveness, entireness, entirety, eternity,
     everywhereness, exhaustiveness, glory, holiness, immutability,
     inclusiveness, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite love,
     infinite mercy, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinity,
     intactness, integrality, integrity, light, majesty, omnipotence,
     omnipotency, omnipresence, omniscience, omnisciency, pervasiveness,
     solidarity, solidity, sovereignty, thoroughness, totality, unity,
     universality, wholeness
  
  

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.