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omni-|ɒmnɪ|
combining form of L. omnis all, used already in ancient L. in forming compound adjs. as omnifer all-bearing, omnigenus of all kinds, omniparens all-producing, omnipotens all-powerful, omnivorus all-devouring. The number of these was increased in Christian and late L., by such additions as omniscius all-knowing, omnifarius omnifarious, omnivalens all-powerful, and in med. Schol. L. by such as omnipræsens, omniscientia; finally in mod.L. and esp. in Eng. itself by a multitude of words formed more or less on the model of these, or to supply a latinized equivalent to an Eng. compound in all-, as in omni-patient all-suffering, omni-percipient all-perceiving, etc. The longer-established and more used words in omni- will be found in their places as Main words; the following are of more occasional occurrence:
omniˈactive a., active in all things or everywhere (also absol. as n.); ˈomni-antenna, an omnidirectional antenna; ˈomniarch |-ɑːk|, ruler of all things; omnibeˈnevolent a. [after omnipotent, etc.], benevolent towards all; so omnibeˈnevolence, universal benevolence; omnicauˈsality, the fact of being the cause of all things; universal causality; omniˈcipient a. = omnipercipient; omnicorˈporeal a., comprising all material bodies; omnicreˈdulity, universal credulity, capacity of believing anything whatever; omni-ˈerudite, a., learned in all (or very many) subjects, having universal erudition; omni-ˈessence, universal essence or being; omˈniferous a. [L. omnifer: see -ferous] (see quot.); omˈnifidel a. [after infidel], believing everything, holding all creeds; omniˈfocal a. Ophthalm., designating a lens whose power changes continuously from top to bottom; also as n., such a lens; omniˈfutuant, -ˈfutuent adjs. [L. futuere to have sexual relations with], practising or tolerant of both homosexual and heterosexual activity; omˈnigerent |-dʒərənt| a. [L. gerent-em, pr. pple. of gerĕre to perform, carry on, do], universally working, performing all kinds of work; ˈomnigraph [see -graph], ‘a pantograph (rare)’ (Webster 1864); omniˈlateral a., facing all directions; representing all points of view; so omniˈlaterally adv.; omˈnilegent a. [L. legent-em, pr. pple. of legĕre to read], reading everything, acquainted with all (or a very great amount of) literature; omnilingual |-ˈlɪŋgwəl| a. [L. lingua tongue, language], speaking or understanding all languages; omˈniloquent a. [L. loquent-em, pr. pple of loquī to speak], speaking of all things or on all subjects; omniˈlucent a. [L. lucēnt-em, pr. pple. of lucēre to shine], shining upon all or everywhere; † ˈomnimode, omˈnimodous adjs. [L. omnimodus, f. modus mode], existing in all modes or ways, of all sorts; omninescience |-ˈnɛʃ(ɪ)əns| [after omniscience: see nescience], ignorance of everything, universal ignorance; so omniˈnescient a., ignorant of everything; omˈniparent a. [L. omniparens: see parent], producing or bringing forth all things; in quot. 1609 as n. = parent of all; omniˈparient a. = prec. (in quot. absol.); omniˈparity [see parity], the state of being all equal, universal equality; omˈniparous a. [late L. omnipar-us (c 500), L. -parus bringing forth, producing] = omniparent; omnipatient |ˈpeɪʃənt| a., patient of everything, having unlimited endurance; omniperˈcipient a., perceiving all things; so omniperˈcipience, † omniperˈcipiency; † omniˈperfect a., all-perfect; omniˈpollent a., all-powerful; omniˈpregnant a., ready to produce anything; † omniˈprudent a. [see prudent], having universal foresight, or exercising universal providence; omnipurpose a., serving all purposes; ˈomnirange Aeronaut., (part of) a navigation system in which short-range omnidirectional VHF transmitters serve as radio beacons; omnirepreˈsentativeness, the quality of being representative of all forms or kinds; † omnisciˈturient a. [L. *scītūrīre to desire to know], desiring to know everything; omniˈscribent, omniˈscriptive adjs. [L. scrībĕre to write], writing on all subjects; omnisentience |-ˈsɛnʃ(ɪ)əns|, universal feeling or sensation; omniˈsentient a., having universal feeling or sensation; omnisigˈnificance, universal significance or meaning; omniˈspective a. [L. spect-, ppl. stem of *specĕre (-spicĕre) to look], looking into or beholding all things; omniˈsubjugant a. [cf. subjuge v.], subjugating everything or everyone; omniˈtemporal a. [L. tempus time], relating to all times; including in its meaning all the various tenses; so omniˈtemporally adv.; † omˈnitenent a. [L. omnitenens, f. tenēre to hold], holding or containing all things; omniˈtolerant a., tolerant of everything; omnitonic |-ˈtɒnɪk| a. Mus. [F. omnitone], relating to all tones or tonalities (see quot.); omni-tooled a., possessing many tools; omˈnivagant a. [L. vagānt-em, pr. pple. of vagāre to wander, cf. L. omnivagus], wandering everywhere; † omˈnivalent [late L. omnivalens], † omˈnivalous adjs. [L. valēre to be strong], all-prevailing, all-powerful, omnipotent; so † omˈnivalence, omnipotence. † omniˈvarious a., of all varieties or different kinds; omniverˈbivorous a. [L. verbum word, vorāre to devour], capable of ‘swallowing’ all words (humorous); omniviˈcarious a., taking the place of (anything); omˈnividence [L. vidēre to see: after omnipotence, etc.], the capacity of seeing all things; † omˈnividency, a seeing of all things; ‘universal inspection’ (Davies); omnivision |-ˈvɪʒən|, the action or faculty of seeing all things, omnividence; † omˈnivolent a. [L. omnivolus], willing everything.
Among other self-explanatory compounds, chiefly nonce-words, which have been used, are omni-centralizing, omni-conclusive, omni-dexterity, omni-directive, omni-loving, omni-motive, omni-penetrative, omni-productive, omni-sciolism, omni-swallowing, omn-itinerant, omni-versifier, omnivivent (all-living). As derivatives from adjs., Bailey (vol. II, 1727) has omniferousness, omniparentness.
1846J. Martineau Misc. (1852) 196 The simplicity of Monotheism cancels the pretended host, and takes the collective universe as the symbol of the Omnipresent and the *Omniactive Mind. 1873Contemp. Rev. XIX. 29 He is everlastingly within creation as its inmost life, omnipresent and omni-active.
1974New Scientist 24 Jan. 191 (caption) *Omni-antenna. 1976CB Mag. June 110 (Advt.), Beam antennas vs. omni-antenna range.
1848Tait's Mag. XV. 706 The hierarchy will extend from the unarch, or head of a phalange, to the *omniarch, or head of the universe. 1850Dobell The Roman vii, So the ordnance of the world, drawn up, might hail the Omniarch.
1834L. Hunt Jrnl. No. 9. 65 The old dilemma between omnipotence and *omnibenevolence perplexed the understanding then as it does now. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. xi. 2002 Omniscience sees, Omnipotence could stop, Omnibenevolence pardons.
1679Penn Addr. Prot. ii. 182 What an Omniscient and Omnipotent God did know and could do for Man's Salvation, an *Omnibenevolent God..would certainly have done.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §8. 200 Absolute perfection..does..not only comprehend..perfect knowledge or understanding, but also *omni-causality and omnipotence.
1899Beerbohm More 162 *Omnicipient in material, the master of many styles.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §18. 347 [In ancient Egyptian theology] He [God] is both Incorporeal and *Omnicorporeal, for there is nothing of any Body, which he is not.
1845Q. Rev. LXXV. 103 He loses no opportunity of showing his *omnicredulity.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. in Archaica (1815) II. 194 What an ambidexterity, or rather *omnidexterity, had the man.
1835Southey Doctor xcv. III. 211 That *omni-erudite man himself is likely to have seen the books from whence Gaffarel derived his knowledge.
1624Donne Serm. xliii. 431 In mine omnipotence, in mine omnipresence, in mine *omni-essence, he is equall partner with me.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Omniferous (omnifer), that beareth or bringeth forth all things, or of all kinds.
1848Athenæum 8 Jan. 35 He is, then, rather *omnifidel than infidel.
1962Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 19 May 595 (heading) The *omnifocal lens for presbyopia. 1962Arch. Ophthalm. LXVIII. 777/1 (heading) Use of the omnifocal. Ibid., Omnifocals are used binocularly but are effective monocularly in cases where only one eye can be used. 1965Maclean's Mag. 20 Feb. 1 An optical company in Ohio offers to solve this problem with an ‘omnifocal’ lens which has power that's gradually increased from top to bottom with no blurred area or transition zone. 1974Year Bk. Ophthalm. 38 Three types of lens included..Varilux, Zoom and Omnifocal.
1929A. Huxley Do What you Will 132 The ancient Greeks were evidently, in Sir Richard Burton's expressive phrase, ‘*omnifutuent’. 1966Listener 24 Mar. 445/1 Stephen learns to accept himself as a homosexual only by entering a society which is innocently omnifutuant. 1967Ibid. 30 Mar. 433/1 Anthony Burgess..to whom, among others, I owe such words as omnifutuant and futuancy.
1865E. Burritt Walk Land's End 383 Here that old *omnigerent worker [the ocean] has turned lapidary.
1936Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 378/2 The present eight hundred pages set forth the science of *omnilateral aristology. 1953Essays in Crit. III. ii. 374 He [sc. Chaucer] sees life steadily, and if he is not omnilateral, he is manysided.
1936Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 378/2 Of old, man was *omnilaterally oriented.
1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 872 In all the ranks of the *omnilegent philosophers. 1890Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 331 De Quincey..was not exactly, as Southey was, ‘omnilegent’.
1893T. B. Foreman Trip to Spain, etc. 59 Antonio is apparently *omni-lingual.
1824New Monthly Mag. X. 226 These *omniloquent professors of Facetiæ. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 294 The bearer of encouragement and intelligence from omniloquent Zeus.
1651Biggs New Disp. 2 The serene and *omni-lucent fountain, the Intellect. 1891‘M. Maartens’ Old Maid's Love II. ix. 213 The wide radiance of heaven.. omnipresent, omnilucent.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Omnimode,..of all manners or fashions, infinite in means, of every way.
1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 132 You will be forced to confesse an *omnimodous desolation of the Roman Empire. 1694Howe Wks. (1834) 139 Absolute omnimodous simplicity.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 95 In *omni-nescience we approach Omniscience. 1886Athenæum 18 Sept. 362/1 The astounding pretensions to universal knowledge and real omninescience displayed in all his novels and dramas.
1890Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 574/2 One of the omniscient, or *omni-nescient, persons who do ‘London Correspondence’.
1609J. Davies Holy Roode (1878) 12 O Thou all-powreful-kind *Omniparent, What holds thy hands that should defend thy head? 1647H. More Poems 197 Omniparent Sol with golden Visage clear.
1886Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbo v. 99 The supreme Rabbet, the *Omniparient, the last-imagined.
1635F. White Sabbath Ep. Ded. 9 They command whatsoever their working-heads affect..to wit, *Omniparity of Church-men. 1822New Monthly Mag. V. 245 Worse than this..is the levelling and jumbling of ages by this preposterous omniparity of appearance.
1755Johnson, All-bearing, that which bears everything; *omniparous.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, With this his so omnipotent or rather *omnipatient Talent of being Gulled. 1880A. Somerville Autobiog. 167 That plain solid omnipatient man had within him some immense resource of high principle and pure passion.
1664H. More Antid. Idolatry ii. 21 This Omnipresence or *Omnipercipience terrestrial. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 235 He saw many different phases of this omnipercipience, which may be bestowed at any moment upon the industrious devotee of this ancient lore, or black magic.
1664H. More Antid. Idolatry ii. 23 The Communication of this *Omnipercipiency.
Ibid. 20 An *omnipercipient Omnipresence, which does hear and see what-ever is said or transacted in the World. 1932H. H. Price Perception vii. 202 This could only be avoided if we had been omnipercipient.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §18. 331 This is the Perfect and genuine Son of the first *Omniperfect [Gr. παντελείου] Being.
1922Joyce Ulysses 377 The certain sign of *omnipollent nature's incorrupted benefaction.
1611Donne Panegyrical Verse Coryat's Crud., *Omniprægnant..They hatch all wares for which the buyer cals. 1812Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 316 A certain omnipregnant, nihili-parturient genius of my acquaintance.
1642Vicars God in Mount (1644) 1 The omnipotent and *omniprudent great God of heaven and earth.
1961*Omnipurpose [see omnicompetent a.].
1947Electronics Oct. 95/2 There are also voice channels on both the runway localizer and the *omnirange, which are used generally for traffic control and weather information. 1951Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 27 V.H.F. Omni-range, a short-range, very-high-frequency, omni-directional beacon which provides an indication in the aircraft of the bearing of the beacon, or left-right track indication. 1959K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. (ed. 5) xxv. 27 As of June 30, 1955, there were 410 omniranges in operation. 1966D. Francis Flying Finish xvii. 199 The V.O.R.—Very high frequency Omni-range—by which one navigated from one radio beacon to the next.
1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 25 The secret of his wonderful fertility and *omnirepresentativeness.
1837C. Lofft Self-formation I. 106 These *omnisciturient gentry resemble..one of the monster words of Aristophanes.
1891Sat. Rev. 13 June 700/2 The subject has since been dealt with by the *omniscribent Sir Thomas Farrer.
1821Blackw. Mag. VIII. 356 In short, he may be reckoned *omni-scriptive or pangraphic.
1851J. B. Hume Undine & Viking ii. ii. in Poems of early years 19 Mid-centre of the Universe, all feeling, eye and ear In *Omnisentience poised, he lives throughout the total sphere.
1932H. H. Price Perception iv. 72 If we were *omnisentient beings,..able to sense all at once all the sense-data which can ever be sensed by every sentient human or non-human.
1835Southey Doctor xciii. III. 193 Which in its *omnisignificance may promise anything, and yet pledges the writer to nothing.
1743S. Boyse Poems iii, Thee, great omniscient *omnispective Power! Thee first and last,—thee only, I adore!
1911Beerbohm Zuleika D. ii. 23 But would she ever meet whom, looking up to him, she could love—she, the *omnisubjugant? 1956P. Fleming My Aunt's Rhinoceros 141 After the war the bureaucrats no longer held their omnisubjugant trump.
1883B. F. Westcott Historic Faith xi. 144 The ‘eternal’ does not in essence express the infinite extension of time but the absence of time, not the *omni-temporal but the supra-temporal. 1890Classical Rev. Oct. 381/1 In this sense it [the Infinitive] may be called timeless = omnitemporal. 1970P. A. Bertocci Person God Is xii. 223 It is..my concern to press the question on both Advaitin and Visishtadvaitin: Why not reconceive the perfection of God so that good and evil, truth and error, progress and decay, can affect the qualitative manner in which God experiences himself and the world, and in a way consistent with his omni⁓temporal unity and continuity?
1961E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. iv. 70 Suppose there are (*omnitemporally) no physical objects that do not attract each other. 1964Philos. Rev. LXXIII. 486 For something to qualify as being true omnitemporally.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Omnitenent,..that contains all things.
1855Bagehot Lit. Stud., Cowper (1879) I. 264 A vague, literary, *omnitolerant idleness.
1879Grove Dict. Music I. 517 The ‘*omnitonic’ system [of Fétis], whose main principle is that harmonic combinations exist by which any given sound may be resolved into any key and any mode.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick III. xxi. 146 This *omni-tooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was,..no mere machine of an automaton.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Omnivagant, wandring every where, that runs up and down in all places. 1891L. Merrick Violet Moses III. xxiii. 200 Vice was omnivagant and reigned supreme.
1607J. Davies Summa Totalis (1878) 17 Which Sonne is but the Sires Intelligence, Making another one *Omnivalence.
1609― Holy Roode 12 Is Sinne so strong, or so *Omniualent, That by Her pow'r, thy pow'r is vanquished? 1773J. Ross Fratricide i. 236 (MS.) By ocular proof of that omnivalent power.
Ibid. ii. 50 The dreadful dungeon of *omnivalous pains.
1624Heywood Gunaik. viii. 395 Tiberius Cæsar builded that chamber, wherein were discovered the *omnivarious shapes of beastly and preposterous luxuries.
1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. xi. 102, I am *omniverbivorous by nature and training.
1967V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (ed. 2) ii. 42 The game in use was the regular ‘draw poker’, with, occasionally, the additional tingle of jackpots and an *omnivicarious joker.
1884E. A. Abbott Flatland ii. xviii, *Omnividence is the attribute of God alone.
a1661Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 26 Not to pretend inspection into the Book of life, seeing all other books have come under their *Omnividencie.
1861E. A. Beaufort Egypt. Sep. & Syr. Shrines I. v. 99 The hawk signifying *omnivision, and the scarabæus, chiefly typical of creation and of the world.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Omnivolent, that willeth or desireth all things. |