ubiquitist

English

Etymology

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) +‎ -ist.

Noun

ubiquitist (plural ubiquitists)

1. Alternative form of ubiquitarian
   • 1995, Lewis William Spitz, Barbara Sher Tinsley, Johann Sturm on Education: The Reformation and Humanist Learning:

     For him there could be no ubiquitist or Catholic interpretations; rather, the supper was a spiritual communion with the body and blood of Christ entirely validated by faith, or invalidated by lack of it.

   • 1995, Pietro Martire Vermigli, John Patrick Donnelly, Joseph C. McClelland, The Peter Martyr Library: Dialogue on the two natures of Christ:

     This is why I urge you to stop preaching that the humanity of Christ is everywhere, if you want us to avoid the term ubiquitist.

   • 2005, John D. Woodbridge, David F. Wright, The Baker History of the Church, page 338:

     Calvinists viewed the Lutheran “ubiquitists" (those who believed Christ's body is everywhere) as having made common theological ground with the papists and accused them of compromising the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

2. One who is always to be found (within a certain context).
   • 1943, The Commonweal - Volumes 39-40, page 568:

     However, it has a history which, documented as scrupulously as possible from hearsay, gossip, clippings, hottings, a playscript courteously furnished by the Theater Guild and a stead number of items supplied by Mr. Leonard Lyons — an ubiquitist who frequently complains that he is always quoted though never mentioned — runs something like this : […]

   • 1987, Kevin Corrigan Kearns, Dublin's Vanishing Craftsmen: In Search of the Old Masters, page 167:

     Nevertheless, he is still a ubiquitist of these islands. You'll meet him on the quiet country road (he's on the 'tramp' then), drinking to the full Nature's beauties as he wends his way; or again in our village and towns, at work or seeking it.

3. An organism that can be found in most types of environment.
   • 1951, Warder Clyde Allee, Ecological Animal Geography:

     A much more numerous biotic element occurs also in other biotopes, whether only in similar adjacent ones or in widely scattered very different habitats, as ubiquitists (forms with high ecological valence, i.e., eurytopic forms).

   • 1960, Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council, Papers, page 1:

     Fortunately, many micro-organisms are true ubiquitists, and descriptions of algae from America will often show the same genera, if not the same species, as those encountered here.

   • 1994, F. Veroustraete, Vegetation, modelling and climatic change effects, page 29:

     Theoretically, ubiquitists will survive and specialists will disappear.

Adjective

ubiquitist (comparative more ubiquitist, superlative most ubiquitist)

1. (rare) Widespread; ubiquitous.
   • 1968, The Career of the Felon, page 63:

     The social contacts and social ties that exist tend to exist only for the sake of securing drugs. This is true even of the ubiquitist sexual union.

   • 2013, Dr Matthew McLean, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster:

     The 'pride even blasphemy' which seemed part and parcel of a format which viewed the entire world as if from without, whilst within its confines, and which assumed the 'eternal, ubiquitist perspective' of its creator, a god's-eye perspective, are absent in Münster's Cosmographia.