adv. Also totiens quotiens. Also 6 tociens quociens, tossyens quossyens. [L., ‘so often as often.’] As often as something happens or occasion demands; repeatedly.
In quot. 1845 applied to a jubilee of the Latin Church, at which a general pardon was granted.
1525. Order Com. Counc. Lond., in Vicary’s Anat. (1888), App. viii. 214. Commaundyd & compelled vppon the payne of imprisonament of xx days, tociens quociens, that they shall no more occupie phisike till they be examyned.
1555. Machyn, Diary (Camden), 94. He declaryd … clen remyssyon of all ther synes tossyens quossyens of all that ever they dyd.
1569. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 685. He sall na wyis … troubill Alexander Quhitlaw … under the pane of Vc li. toties quoties.
1698–9. Act 1 Will. III., c. 2 § 141. And such Assignee may in like manner assigne again and soe toties quoties.
a. 1734. North, Exam., I. ii. § 165. Grand Juries may enquire toties quoties of the same Offence.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, II. 771/1. Hence the jubilee was called ‘toties quoties,’ for it was an annual benefit.
