[ad. mod.L. *ubietās, f. L. ubi UBI.] Condition in respect of place or location; local relationship; whereness.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 77. Being no wayes beclam’d with body as to ubiety or whereness.
1686. H. More, Real Pres., 25. To make a body in this sense independent of Place or Ubiety, is as unconceivable as to make it independent of Time.
1733. Watts, Scheme Ontol., xii. Of time, and place, and ubiety.
1834. Southey, Doctor, cxcii. (1848), 509. O Soul of Sir John Cheke, thou wouldst have led me out of my way, if that had been possible,—if my ubiety did not so nearly resemble ubiquity.
1855. Bailey, Mystic, etc., 81. Vervain and magic haschisch, which endows Thought with ubiety.
1866. R. Hobson, Chas. Waterton, iv. 92. Notwithstanding her uncertain tenure of ubiety,… she [the coot] patiently yielded to her lot.
