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QUAERE.<br />
quaere, .as to the reason for the tender of the demy-mark.<br />
Hence f Quaere, quere v. y to query. Obs.<br />
1627 W. SCLATER Exp. 2 T/iess. (1629) 131 It might be<br />
qusered. 1663 Aron-Ci)nn. 101 He quseres what it is that<br />
renders a people blessed. 1681 T. FLATMAN Heraclitns<br />
Ridcns No. 23 (1713) 1. 153 Nay, let 'em consider of it and<br />
;<br />
let us Quere about the matter. 1756 H. WALPOLE Corr.<br />
(1837) III. 137 Should not one quere whether he had not<br />
those proofs in his hands antecedent to the cabinet?<br />
Queeree, -rie, Quaerent, obs. ff. QUERY,<br />
QUKRENT.<br />
1<br />
f Quee-ritate, v. Obs. rare- ,<br />
[f. ppl. stem<br />
of L. qwnritare, freq. of qiUKrcrc<br />
to ask, inquire.]<br />
trans. To inquire<br />
or search into.<br />
1657 TOMLINSON Renous Disp. 387 Apothecaryes quaeritate<br />
its Medicinal! use, which Mithndates knew.<br />
Quaery, obs. form of QUERY.<br />
t Qusesite, anglicized f. QU^ESITUM. Obs. rare- 1 .<br />
1655 OUGHTRED in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 83<br />
Your fourth quasite is, why the equation whereby it is<br />
solved is the very same in both?<br />
(kwfssi'tom). PI. qusesita. [L.,<br />
II Qucesituni<br />
neut. sing, ofguxstt-us, pa. pple. offtusrfrt<br />
to seek :<br />
see QUESITED.J That which is sought for ; an<br />
object of search ; the answer to a problem.<br />
1748 HARTLEY Observ. fifan i. Introd., So as to proceed<br />
intirely from the Data to the Quaesita, from things known<br />
to such as are unknown. 1830 HERSCHEL Stud. Nat. Phil.<br />
n. vL (1851) 176 A series of careful and exact measures m<br />
every different state of the datum and quaesitum. 1864<br />
BOWEN Logic viii. 229 In the Analytic order the Conclusion<br />
would be more properly called the Quaesitum.<br />
Quaestor (kw/'st/a). Rom. Antiq. Also 4-7<br />
questor. [a. L. quxstor^ agent-n. from quxrere to<br />
seek, inquire.] a. One of a number of Roman<br />
officials who had charge of the public revenue and<br />
expenditure, acting as treasurers of state, paymasters<br />
of the troops, etc. b. In early times : A<br />
public prosecutor in certain criminal cases.<br />
1387 TREVISA Higden (Rolls) IV. 49 Caton be questor<br />
brou^te hym [Ennius] to Rome. Questor is he pat gadre)><br />
tribut to Rome, and be domesman was somtyme i-cleped<br />
questor. 1577 HELLOWES Gueitara's Chron. 80 Adrian<br />
was made Questor, that is to say, he had charge to prouide<br />
victuals and furniture for the campe. 1641 'SMECTYMNUUS'<br />
Answ. 12 (1653) 45 Tiberius granted a Questors dignitie<br />
unto a Bishop for his eloquence. 1781 GIBBON Decl. $ f.<br />
xvii. II, 53 In the course of nine centuries, the office of<br />
quzstor had experienced a very singular revolution. 1838<br />
ARNOLD Hist. Rome I. 339 The two quststors who judged<br />
in cases of blood, were also chosen from the patricians.<br />
transf. and fig. 1850 S. DOBELL The Roman v. Poet.<br />
Wks. (1875) 63, I, her<br />
[Pity's] quaestor, Claim tribute from<br />
you. A few tears will pay it. 1863 TREVELYAN f.<br />
Conine<br />
Wallah (1866) 124 Our modern quaestors are every whit as<br />
grasping and venal as the satellites of Verres and Dolabella.<br />
QufiBstor, variant of QUESTOR sb<br />
Quaestorial (kwfst6>rial), a. [f. L. guststori-us<br />
+ -AL.] Of or pertaining to a quaestor or<br />
his position in the state.<br />
>86a MERIVALE Rom. Emp. \. (1865) VI. 197 Narcissus<br />
had received the quaestorial ornaments as the reward of his<br />
services. 1868 FARRAR Seekers i. v. (1875) 67 Men of consular<br />
and quaestorial parentage.<br />
So f Qusesto'rian a. Obs. rare*1 .<br />
a 1641 Bp. MOUNTACU Acts fy Mon. (1642) 335 Consular,<br />
Praetorian, Questorian or Equestrian officers.<br />
Qnaestorship (kwrst^ijip). [f.<br />
-SHIP.] The office of quaestor.<br />
1570 LEVINS Manip. 141/5 Y Questorship, gnx&tnra.<br />
1581 SAVILE Tacitus, Agricola (1622) 186 After his Questorship<br />
till he [Agricola] was created Tribune of the people.<br />
4:1050 DENHAM Of Old Age 94, I, five years after, at<br />
Tarentum wan The Quaestorship. 1834 LYTTON Pompeii \,<br />
iv. Your petty thirst for fasces and qusestorships. 1871<br />
SEELEY Livy i. Introd. 90 Of all the great magistracies,<br />
the quaestorship was the lowest in dignity.<br />
So f Qms'story (in 6 questorie). Obs. rare"1 .<br />
'533 BELLENDEN Livy iv. (1822) 382 The small pepill had<br />
sic victorie, that thay belevit the questorie nocht to be the<br />
end of this honoure.<br />
Qusestuary (kwrsti#,ari), a. and sb. Also<br />
7 quest-, [aa. L. qu&stua) f<br />
i-us> f. qti&stus gain :<br />
see -ABY. Cf. obs. F. questuaire (Godef.).]<br />
A. adj. Connected or concerned with gain ;<br />
money-making.<br />
1594 R. ASHLEY tr. Loys le Roy 125 If they be poore, they<br />
applie themselues to questuarie, or gainfull arts ; whereby<br />
to haue meanes to Hue. 1646 SIR T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep.<br />
137 Although lapidaries, and questuary enquirers affirme<br />
it, yet the Writers of Mineralls. .are of another beliefe.<br />
1694 R. L'EsTKANGE^ViWw 454 The Lawyers, the Divines,<br />
and all quaestuary professions, a 1864 FKRRIER Grk. Philos.<br />
(1866) I. ,\ii. 352 This.. may be termed the quajstuary<br />
class,, .this being the end which they aim at.<br />
t B. sb. One who seeks for =*<br />
gain ; spec. QUES-<br />
TOR sb. i. Obs.<br />
1614 BP. HALL No Peace with Rome 12 Not giuen by<br />
the popes, but lewdly deuised by some of his base questuaries<br />
for an aduantage. 1664 JER. TAYLOR Dissitas. Popery<br />
ii.<br />
^ person and Dominicus a Soto are asham'd of thesu<br />
prodigious indulgences, and suppose that the Pope's Qusestuaries<br />
onely did procure them.<br />
tQuaesture. Obs. rare~ l . In 7 questure.<br />
[ad. L. qttxstilra.] = QU^ESTORSHIP.<br />
l&73 S. C. Art ofComplaisance
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