Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
quodlibetal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not restricted to a particular subject; discussed for curiosity or entertainment.
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Examples
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Such work necessarily cost trouble and forethought, and the hard-working teacher of the day, instead of printing his lectures on philosophy or history or editing and commentating texts, gave to his pupils in permanent form the quodlibetical disputations which the busy among them had struggled to copy down into note-books, and over which the inattentive, like Erasmus, had yawned.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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They at length collected all these quodlibetical questions into enormous volumes, under the terrifying form, for those who have seen them, of _Summaries of Divinity_!
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
qms commented on the word quodlibetical
Conversing in mode quodlibetical
My contrary friend is heretical.
In subsequent talks
He’s more orthodox
To savor all joys antithetical.
May 24, 2018