Quidism

===An American Glossary, Volume 2, Richard Hopwood Thornton J.B. Lippincott, 1912.===

Quid, quidism. The Quids were a third party (tertium quid) opposed to the administration of United States president, James Madison.

• 1805 Those called the third party, or Quids.—Thomas Jefferson, Writings, 1830, iv. 45. (N.E.D.)

• The Yeomanry of Pennsylvania [will] give Federalism, Quidism, and all thier allies, a total overthrow.—Id. Oct. 29.

• 1807

Let faithless Traitors, and Apostate Quids,
Tories of old and sullen angry Feds,
Unite their Interests in one common cause,
To tread down Virtue, Liberty, and Laws.
Lancaster (Pa) Intelligencer, Jan. 6