Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In the same place. Used in footnotes and bibliographies to refer to the book, chapter, article, or page cited just before.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the same place; at the place or in the book already mentioned: used in order to avoid the repetition of references. Commonly abbreviated to ibid. or ib.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in the same place (used when citing a reference)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin ibīdem; see i- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • An abbreviation for ibidem, a Latin word meaning “in the same place.

    ibid 2002

  • Iste tamen tyro superveniens finaliter illaesus exivit; et dehinc multo tempore Boreas quievit, nec ibidem fuit, ut supra, cateranorum excursus.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Hence, Heidegger remarks that 'the world picture does not change from an earlier medieval one to a modern one; rather, that the world becomes picture at all is what distinguishes the essence of modernity ibidem.

    Archive 2007-10-01 enowning 2007

  • Note 5: RHF, 18: 728B: "effosso sepulcro propriis manibus, corpus extraxit defuncti foetens admodum et putridum, magnum naribus offendiculum, utpote quod jam per menses aliquot ibi jacuerat tumulatione, et ab ipsa camera usque ad coemeterium Montis-Autrici, nudis pedibus, solis indutus lineis ut plebeius quilibet, ad tumulandum ibidem propriis humeris deportavit, sese humlians salubriter coram Deo". back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • The being does not acquire being in that man first looks upon it in the sense of a representation that has the character of subjective perception' ibidem.

    Archive 2007-10-01 enowning 2007

  • Hence, Heidegger remarks that 'the world picture does not change from an earlier medieval one to a modern one; rather, that the world becomes picture at all is what distinguishes the essence of modernity ibidem.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • Note 159: Barth, Dpr., p. 238: "sic infantis defectum suppleat virtus gerulae nutricis, sicut ibidem dicit Constantinus." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • And while it is in more general use than just law, I suppose that ibidem counts or is another term used for that purpose?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t: 2007

  • “Quumque Hierosolymam accessisset, et ibidem aliquandiu mansisset, pontificis filiam ducere in animum induxisse, et eam ob rem proselytum factum, atque circumcisum esse; postea quod virginem eam non accepisset, succensuisse, et adversus circumcisionem, ac sabbathum totamque legem scripsisse.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The being does not acquire being in that man first looks upon it in the sense of a representation that has the character of subjective perception' ibidem.

    enowning enowning 2007

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  • male form of eadem

    October 19, 2010