a. [f. as UBIQUITARY + -OUS.] Present or appearing everywhere; omnipresent: a. Of single persons or things.
Of persons freq. with humorous exaggeration = ‘turning up everywhere.’
1837. Miss Sedgwick, Live & let Live (1876), 60. Mrs. Broadson, who had an ubiquitous pair of ears.
1852. Thackeray, Esmond, III. i. Here, as he lay nursing himself, ubiquitous Mr. Holt reappeared.
1860. Pusey, Min Proph., 428. Heathendom was as a beleaguered city, mastered by an ubiquitous Presence, which they knew not how to meet.
1879. S. C. Bartlett, Egypt to Pal., i. 14. On crossing to the Continent, the marks of this ancient and ubiquitous force grew more continuous.
b. Of a kind or class of persons or things.
1840. E. Newman, Brit. Ferns (1844), 210. This fern appears to be ubiquitous in the moist woods and marshes.
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xvii. III. 306. Informing himself, moreover, of passing events by means of ubiquitous spies and officials.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 4. Wherever a ship could penetrate,… there we find these ubiquitous, these irrepressible Phœnicians.
1887. Pall Mall G., 17 Dec., 2/2. The ubiquitous and unabashed British tourist.
Hence Ubiquitously adv., Ubiquitousness.
1864. Daily Tel., 16 Aug. In spirit Mr. Dicey remains *ubiquitously impartial.
1882. Standard, 25 Dec., 5/1. The modern spirit is ubiquitously triumphant.
1874. Contemp. Rev., XXV. 135. I have a spirit of which *ubiquitousness is an attribute.
1887. Pall Mall G., 8 Feb., 2/2. The coolness and courage he infused into his young troops by his ubiquitousness on the battlefield.
