Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Somebody; one unknown.

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

  • noun Somebody; one unknown.

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Examples

  • We must correct the Bollandist text: _Inter quos quidam de Assisio puer ac simplicem animum gerens_, by: _quidam de Assisio pium ac simplicem_, etc.

    Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

  • She was the daughter of the puissant Charles the Fifth, but her mother was only the daughter of a citizen of Oudenarde; of a "quidam" like the nameless weaver who had thus been burned by her express order.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • She was the daughter of the puissant Charles the Fifth, but her mother was only the daughter of a citizen of Oudenarde; of a "quidam" like the nameless weaver who had thus been burned by her express order.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • She was the daughter of the puissant Charles the Fifth, but her mother was only the daughter of a citizen of Oudenarde; of a "quidam" like the nameless weaver who had thus been burned by her express order.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • She was the daughter of the puissant Charles the Fifth, but her mother was only the daughter of a citizen of Oudenarde; of a "quidam" like the nameless weaver who had thus been burned by her express order.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • This is the "quidam" that Cirque du Soleil is celebrating.

    Maryannaville™ 2008

  • This "quidam," as she called him -- for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter -- had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • This "quidam," as she called him -- for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter -- had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • This "quidam," as she called him -- for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter -- had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • This "quidam," as she called him -- for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter -- had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I John Lothrop Motley 1845

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