ubiquitarian

& a. [.Eng. ubiquitary; A. As substantive: -an .] 1. Ord . Lang .: One who exists everywhere; one who is omnipresent. 2. Church Hist . ( pl . ): A name applied to those who, confusing the two natures, taught that Christ, as in an, was omnipresent, as did the Apollinarists and Eutychians in the early Church. Luther re-a erted the ubiquity of Christ's body in his controversy with the Zwinglians as to the reception of the body of Christ in the sacrament, and in a sermon of 1527 ( Quod Verba Stent ) , and in the Confe io Major of 1528 declared that Christ's body was not only in heaven and in the Eucharist, but every where, and this of nece ity. The Calvinists, Zwinglians, and Me lanch thon opposed, and the latter pointed out that the doctrine of ubiquity led to a denial of the Real Presence, which it was intended to support. This tenet, however, was inserted in the Formula of Concord (A. D. 1577), though no mention was made of it in the Augsburg Confe ion (A. D. 1530). "It is indeed obvious that every Luther an who believes IMG:content-1641.png:[blocks in formation] U-bi-qui-tist, s. [Eng. ubiquit (y); -ist.] The same as UBIQUITARIAN (q. v.). u-bi-qui-to us, adj. [English ubiquit(y); -ous.] Existing or being everywhere; omnipresent. u-bi-qui-to us-lý, adv . [Eng. ubiquitous : -ly.] In a ubiquitous manner; in a manner involving real or seeming omnipresence.