quodlibet

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Among the lower orders small nose rings are sometimes worn here Mr. Mansur furnished me with a very good table in the morning, I had buttermilk, bread, cucumber, and on one occasion dates roasted in butter, which, however, was not very palatable; in the evening mutton and rice, or a quodlibet of rice, barley, maize, cucumber, onions and minced meat.

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  1. noun A theological or philosophical issue presented for formal argument or disputation.
  2. noun Formal disputation of such an issue.
  3. noun Music A usually humorous medley.

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  • Among the lower orders small nose rings are sometimes worn here Mr. Mansur furnished me with a very good table in the morning, I had buttermilk, bread, cucumber, and on one occasion dates roasted in butter, which, however, was not very palatable; in the evening mutton and rice, or a quodlibet of rice, barley, maize, cucumber, onions and minced meat. —  A Woman's Journey Round the World
  • And so if the like happen in Chrysostom, Basil, Jerome, they think it enough to say they are not obliged by it The apostles also confuted the heathen philosophers and Jews, a people than whom none more obstinate, but rather by their good lives and miracles than syllogisms: and yet there was scarce one among them that was capable of understanding the least "quodlibet" of the Scotists. —  The Praise of Folly
  • Vivat academia, vivant professores, vivat membrum quodlibet, vivant membra quaelibet, semper sint in flore. —  Greifenstein
  • L. L.vius M.F. Praenestinus, quodlibet in negotium non inhonestum qui victum meream locare ve lim. —  Average Jones
  • _Zodiaci_, 5. quodlibet graduum, XXX, quorum nomina sunt —  The Orbis Pictus
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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin quodlibetum, from Latin quod libet, anything at all : quod, what; see kwo- in Indo-European roots + libet, it pleases, third person sing. present tense of libēre, to be pleasing; see leubh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French quolibet, a joke, pun; from Middle Latin quodlibetum, a quodlibet, from Latin quodlibet (quidlibet), what you please, anything you please, anything at all (neuter of quilibet, any one you please, any one at all), from quod, what, neuter of qui, who, which, + libet, impersonal, it pleases. Cf. quillet.
 

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