pluripresent

comparative more pluripresent · superlative most pluripresent

1. rarePresent in more than one place.

   ’Tis eve, and Fancy’s pluripresent world / Is here, and twilight shades o’er Afric’s woods / Prevail, and skies have lost their copper tint— / The palm leaves bend beneath that wondrous fan.

   1849 July, T. B. Balch, “Africa. A Miniature Poem”, in The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, volume XXV, Washington, D.C.: […] American Colonization Society, […] C. Alexander, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 215

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   [I]f the world be constantly governed by the divine attribute of Justice as well as by that of Mercy, then every capital crime must be visited with capital punishment; whilst every culprit about to suffer, whether sentenced to be hung or quartered, must be punctually attended by the Divine Hangman or Executioner; and, since there will be many such like executions, in different parts of the world, at one and the same time; the individual executioner, no matter whether called the Devil, Satan, or Sammael, must be possessed of the high prerogative of ubiquity or pluripresence; a flagrant insult to the Supreme Being, in that nothing created can ever be pluripresent, but only the Creator.

   [1845], John Oxlee, “Letter I.”, in Three More Letters Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of His Grace the Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, […], London: […] Hatchard and Son, […], →OCLC, page 28

   In many forms, for thou art pluripresent, / Thou charmest men, in foambell and in flower: / In star and moon, in cresset and in crescent, / In purpurissate warblers of the bower, / And in the glitterant gems of summer’s shower:[…]

   1895, J. E. F. J., “Mary Beautiful”, in Niagara Index, volume 28, Niagara University, N.Y., page 82

   Synonyms: multipresent