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