† ˈquidditative, a. Obs.
[f. quiddit-y + -ative. See also quiddative.]
1. Pertaining to the quiddity or essence of a thing.
| 1650 Charleton Paradoxes 9 The quidditative and peculiarly expresse causes of all those admirable effects of the Loadstone. 1656 [? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 220 The quidditative notion of an Element. |
2. Full of equivocations, quirky.
| 1611 Cotgr., Quidditatif, quidditatiue, doubtfull, obscure, full of quirkes, fraught with quiddities. 1637 Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. i. ix. 31 A weak and easily penetrable hedge of some quidditative Cautions. |
Hence † ˈquidditatively adv.
| c 1600 Timon iv. iii. (1842) 66 The moone may bee taken..either specificatiuely, or quidditatiuely, or superficially, or catapodially. |