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Definition of Quidam
1. n. Somebody; one unknown.
Definition of Quidam
1. a certain person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quidam
Literary usage of Quidam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works, of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams ...: From the by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Horace Walpole (1822)
"Peter Walter, the usurer, well known by Pope's satires. Lord quidam was probably
an imaginary person.—W. Peter was a person not ..."
2. Sancti Aurelii Augustini Episcopi De Civitate Dei Libri XXII. by Augustinus, (1877)
"... qui matri successit in regnum, quidam etiam ipsum Ni- uum, quidam vero derivato
a patre vocabulo ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"where he is specifically said to be attempting to refute the arguments of ' quidam
vir vene- ... quidam ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... pleased themselves, after they were become masters of that city. You shall
here likewise have the issue of the whole mock' show. quidam, ut imperivm ..."
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