n. [ Cf. Quiddity, Quillet, and Quibble. ] A subtilty; an equivocation. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
By some strange quiddit or some wrested clause. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Quiddative. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]