quidam

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This "quidam," as she called him--for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter--had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.

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  1. Somebody; one unknown. [Rare.] So many unworthy Quidams, which catch at the garlond which to you alone is dewe. Spenser, Shep. Cal., Ded.

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  • This is the "quidam" that Cirque du Soleil is celebrating. —  Maryannaville™
  • 5: "Sed aiunt quidam, satis deum habere, si corde et animo suspiciatur, licet actu minus fiat; itaque se salvo metu et fide peccare, hoc est salva castitate matrimonia violare etc.": de ieiun. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
  • Et propter hoc ethnicorum quidam, qui minus illecebris ac voluptatibus servierunt, et non in tantum superstitione idolorum coabducti sunt, providentia eius moti licet tenuiter, tamen conversi sunt, ut dicererit fabricatorem huiuss universitatis patrem omnium providentem et disponentem secundum nos mundum." —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
  • There was never a harsh note in his speech Latrantur enim jam quidam oratores, non loquuntur When he was confronted with some general rule, or some plain fact, he had a marvellous art of subtle distinction. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
  • ‘Consideratio’ is not ‘_a consideration;’ the Latins, having no article, are driven to expedients to supply its place, e.g._, quidam is sometimes used for a 2. —  The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin
 

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  1. Latin, some, a certain, from qui, who, + -dam, variant -dem, an indefinite suffix.
 

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