sb. and a. Also 8 ubiquerian. [f. L. ubīque wherever, anywhere, everywhere.]
A. sb. † 1. pl. A society or club existing in the 18th cent. Also attrib. Obs.
1737. (title). A modest vindication of the illustrious order of Ubiquarians. Ibid., 23. The Ubiquarian Senate do not yet admit of this Difference.
1755. J. Witsell, in Connoisseur, 27 Nov., 581. Laws, Rules, Regulations, or Orders, shall be formed for the Anti-Gallicans, Ubiquarians, Gregorians, or any private clubs and societies.
1761. Ann. Reg., Charac., II. 51/1. He was a respectable member of the Killers of Care, The Silenians,… Ubiquarians, &c.
2. A person who goes everywhere. rare.
1767. Ann. Reg., Charac., 62/2. The English being by their nature Ubiquarians, and seldom in one place long, must have painted canvas as quick as their ideas.
1812. Sporting Mag., XL. 281. That sporting ubiquarian, Colonel Thornton.
B. adj. 1. Being or existing, present or found, everywhere; ubiquitous, ubiquitary.
1762. Gentl. Mag., Sept., 440/1. Happiness our friend shall be, Ubiquerian deity!
1784. Cowper, Tiroc., 266. Have ye, ye sage intendants of the whole, An ubiquarian presence and controul.
1819. MacCulloch, West. Isl. Scol., II. 321. Fingal … the ubiquarian king and warrior is said to have occupied them.
1848. Hampden, Bampt. Lect. (ed. 3), 147. The Universal Governor, overshadowing all things with the ubiquarian tutelage of his Providence.
1891. C. Dixon, Idle Hours w. Nat., 108. The ubiquarian House Sparrow has his home amongst the girders of the roof.
2. Met with or experienced everywhere.
1825. Monthly Rev., CVI. 490. It will facilitate, also, to men of note, who have occasion to travel, an ubiquarian reception.
