Definition of "ubication" in 英语

noun

1. (archaic, chiefly in Spanish contexts) The condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position; whereness, ubiety; also, a location.

   • We conceiue these modifications if the thing, like substances; and…we call them by substantiue names, Whitenesse, Action, Vbication, Duration, &c.
   • Relations, Ubications, Duration, the vulgar Philosophy admits into the list of something.
   • Arriaga, who wrote in 1639,…suggests that the board affects the upper weight, which it does not touch, by its ubication, or whereness.
   • The terminus ad quem is already existing, and merely receives a new ubication.