noun
definition
The inherent nature of something.
definition
A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid).
Examples of quid in a Sentence
The king having asked, "Quid distat inter sottum et Scottum ?"
This same purpose, namely, to hold fast to the historic Jesus, triumphed in the doctrine of the Trinity; Jesus was not to be resolved into an aeon or into some mysterious tertium quid, neither God nor man, but to be recognized as very God who redeemed the soul.
The Liber de compositione alchemiae, which professes to be by Morienus - perhaps the same as the Marianus who was the teacher of Khalid - was translated by Robertus Castrensis, who states that he finished the work in 1182, and speaks as if he were making a revelation - " Quid sit alchemia nondum cognovit vestra Latinitas."
It was simply a case of differing definitions of quid pro quo.
The general heads of the exposition in the secular portion of the book were four - (1) " who the men are who act (qui agant), (2) the places in which they act (ubi), (3) the times at which they act (quando), (4) the results of their action (quid agant)."
Suddenly people who last week could sell a tray of fruit for 30 quid simply by batting their eyelids became, well, banshees.
Your local friendly cobbler will stitch it for a couple of quid.
It is the casual kite fliers which the 200 quid might deter!
There once was a fat man called Sid, Who ate twenty haggis for five quid.
A pack of 5 bushes was a quid at last year's Beaulieu auto jumble.
Ronnie Scott's How do you get a jazz musician to make a million quid, the joke goes.
Jump through hoops to earn 5 quid an hour.
I ended up spending 200 quid for a taxi to get us home, " an angry Brosnan remarked.
Wish I'd have saved a few quid now.
I would bet the fifty quid I'd get for this gig that the cloak would be green.
The mental exercising game launched on June 9th and costs just twenty quid.
And the fare is twenty-five quid, and I don't think it would take that much gasoline.
I am sure they could fetch a few quid to sink in someone's hedge fund.
Worth the odd few quid - don't you think?
Kia should spend a few more quid on the keys - it could be the best value marketing there is.
Mouth cancer is much more common in parts of the world where people chew betel quid.
All takes place from 9.30pm to 5am - tickets are twelve quid, or a tenner for Fabric First members and NUS card holders.
I know I certainly am not bringing a 300 quid camera where i'm going to get sloshed.
Jeez - you can still buy the real thing down the army surplus store for fourteen quid.
Still, its a nice move to propose an extra thirty quid on road tax for the ' Chelsea tractors ' .
Say, that we'd understated our projected turnover this year by a million quid or so.
Hazel has never forgiven HE for being so ungracious about the quid pro quo that night he tweaked her nose.
Eighteen quid's worth of gasoline is about the same price as a decent bottle of whiskey isn't it?
Suarez maintains that, though the humanity of Socrates does not differ from that of Plato, yet they do not constitute realiter one and the same humanity; there are as many "formal unities" (in this case, humanities) as there are individuals, and these individuals do not constitute a factual, but only an essential or ideal unity ("ita ut plura individua, quae dicuntur esse ejusdem naturae, non sint unum quid vera entitate quae sit in rebus, sed solum fundamentaliter vel per intellectum").
The audience, composed of students and townspeople, interrupted him with the cry Quid de anima?
I ended up spending 200 quid for a taxi to get us home, an angry Brosnan remarked.
Wish I 'd have saved a few quid now.
I would bet the fifty quid I 'd get for this gig that the cloak would be green.
And the fare is twenty-five quid, and I do n't think it would take that much gasoline.
I am sure they could fetch a few quid to sink in someone 's hedge fund.
Worth the odd few quid - do n't you think?
If a car is seen going into one they will get a 80 quid fine for it.
At 70 quid connection fee in the hotel, no one there was online.
Just a little contact, couple of quid postage and it made their week.
I currently own a couple of hundred quid worth of accessories and games that are useless to me !
Forty quid ought to get you more than that.
For example, you do n't add a few hundred quid 's worth of body kit then risk wrapping it round a lamppost.
And I 'm not just saying that, because I paid 50 quid for the privilege.
I know I certainly am not bringing a 300 quid camera where i 'm going to get sloshed.
This was appreciated as it enabled me to gain access easily although I did have to pay a quid for some tombola tickets.
Still, its a nice move to propose an extra thirty quid on road tax for the ' chelsea tractors '.
Say, that we 'd understated our projected turnover this year by a million quid or so.
Eighteen quid 's worth of gasoline is about the same price as a decent bottle of whiskey is n't it?
The XBOX 360 is the latest console to be released and currently the most powerful, even so it will only set you back around a maximum of 300 quid whereas a top-of the range PC is going to be at least double that if not more.
Most people recognize that quid pro quo behaviors are being truly harassing.