QUITTANCE. though I am thy Debtor. 1819 SCOTT Ivanhoe x, Gurth . . folded the quittance, and put it under his cap. 1863 J. G. MURPHY Comin., Gen. xxiv. 5-8 He .. obtains a quittance from his oath. 1883 OUIDA Maremma I. 248 We let her take our substance and never asked her a quittance. fig- 133 R- BRUNNE Handl. Synne 10813 pe fourbe sacrament ys penaunce, pat ys for synne a quytaunce. 1595 Locrine v. iv. 188 Soon shall I ..with my sword. .Seal thee a quittance for thy bold attempts. 1649 QUARLES Div. for her sin. Poems I. 60 Deare Mercy made a Quittance Prov. 1563 J. HEYWOOD Prov. ff Epigr. (1867) 161 Suffrans is no quittans. 1600 SHAKS. A. Y. L. ill. v. 133 That's all one : omittance is no quittance. 3. Recompense or requital ; repayment ; reprisal. ,* + -ED.] 1. Provided or equipped with a quiver. 1634 MILTON Connts 422 Like a quiver'd Nymph with Arrows keen, a 1661 HOLYDAY Juvenal 22 Quiver'd Semiramis th' Assyrian ne're Did thus. 1717 ADDISON tr. Ovid's Met. Wks. 1758 I. 169 Diana, with a sprightly train Of quiver'd virgins. 1813 SCOTT Rokeby i. xxi, A giant he, With quivered back. 1874 W. BRUCE Hebrew Odes 24 Safe from the shout of the quivered foe. 2. Placed or kept in, or as in, a quiver. 1651 SHERBURNE Rape Helen, When his quiver'd Shafts slie did not see, She Icnew he was not Love. 1723 POPE Odyss. xxn. 4 Full in their face the. lifted bow he bore, And quiver'd deaths. 1846 KEBLE Lyra Innoc. (1873) 175 If she once unlock her quivered store. Qui'verful. [f. QUIVER sd. 1 + -FUL.] As much as a quiver can hold. Usually_/^. with ref. to Ps. cxxvii. 5 (see QUIVER sb. 1 i b, quot. 1535). 1861 BUMSTEAD Ven. Dis. (1879) 210 Women .. who have 'replenished the earth' with many quiverfuls of offspring. 1885 Manch. Exam. 18 Feb. 5/2 A quiverful of satirical invectives. 1890 Long-m. Mag. July 208 She was surrounded by a quiverful of chubby-cheeked children. b. Used as adj. Having one's quiver full. 1869 Daily News 20 Mar., The quiverful and luckless Paterfamilias. Quivering (kwrvarin), vbl. sb. [f. QUIVER v* + -ING !.] The action of the vb. 1363 TURNER Herbal n. (1568) 23 b, The same .. is good., for quiueringe or shakinge. 1597 A. M. tr. Guillenteau's Fr, Chirurg. 10/1 The Spasmus possessed the whole bodye element. 1863 GEO. ELIOT Romefa i. vi, A momentary
QUIVERING. quivering of the lip. 1884 tr. Lotze"s Logic 437 The confused notion that . . colours [are] merely quiverings of the ether. Quivering (kwi-varirj \ ///. a. [ + -ING ^.J 1. That quivers ; tremulous. a 1547 SURREY j^Enciit II. 224 Holding . . her targe and quiuering spere. 1631 LITHGOW Trav. VI. 273 A soft paued lodging for quiuering Goates. 1700 DRYDFN tr. Ovid s Metam. xiil. 124 Let his quiv'ring Heart confess his Fear. 1735 SOMERVILLE Chase in. 429 The quiv'ring Bog Soft yielding to the Step. 1820 W. IRVING Sketch Bk. I. 124 The sequestered pool, reflecting the cruivering trees. 1871-4 J. THOMSON City Dreadf. Nt. xvll. ii, The quivering moon* bridge on the deep black stream. 2. Of the nature of quivering. 1849 NOAD Electricity 42 A wide brush of pale ramifications, having a quivering motion. 1882 A. W. WARD Dickens iv. 103 The story of . . experiences to which his own mind could not recur without a quivering sensitiveness. Quiveringly (kwi-varirjli), adv. [f. prec. + -LV 2 .] In a quivering manner ; with a quiver in the voice. 1808 HELEN ST. VICTOR Ruins of Rigonda III. 164 He started, then quiveringly exclaimed. 1862 R. H. PATTERSON l:ss. Hist, ^f Art 365 Pale tremulous rays . . shooting quiveringly along the sky. 1876 GEO. ELIOT Dan. Der. v. xxxvn, One of those quivenngly-poised natures that lend themselves to second-sight. 1894 Temple Bar Mag. CI. 514, ' I did hope ' (quiveringly) ' that you knew me better.' t adv. Qui'verly, 06s. [f. QUIVER a. + -LY^.] Actively, quickly, smartly. cg6o Rnle St. Benet (Schroer) 122 Donne he wel 5enab& ures drihtnes heorde cwiferlice gealgaS & to rihte manad. private ones. b. //. as sb. Quixotic sentiments. 1896 Spectator 7 Mar. 337 If,. our Quixotics seem foolish or extravagant. HunceQuixo-ticaltf.; Quixo'ticaUyaw'z;.; Quixo-ticism = QUIXOTISM. 1850 Erasers Mag. XLII. 482 No Quixotical redresser of wron. 1862 Sat. Rev. XIII. 660/2 A mathematician who . -Quixotically endeavoured to cure him. i88a Athenseum 23 Sept. 410/1 The symbol of his noble quixoticism. Quixotism (kwi-ksjJtiz'm). [f. as prec. + -ISM.] Quixotic principles, character, or practice an ; instance of this, a quixotic action or idea. 1688 Pulpit Popery, True Popery 36 All the Herolca "" Fictions of Ecclesiastical Quixotism. otism. "1723 1723 Briton No. No, 20 (1724) uld appear mere Quixotism 86 His Publick Spirit woultl il 345 The scorn which inopportune quixotism provoke So Qui'xotize v. a. intr. t to act in a quixotic manner ; b. trans., to render quixotic. 1831 Examiner 226/1 The folly to think of quixotlzmg through all Europe. 1894 Du MAURIER Trilby 99 A thing to Quixotize a modern French masher ! Quixotry (kwi'ks^tri). Also 8 -ery. [f. as prec. + -RY.J = QUIXOTISM. [1718 MOTTEUX Quix. (1733) III. 45 Many.. cry out Give us more Quixotery.] 1814 SCOTT Drama (1874) 217 An adventurous spirit of profligate Quixotry. 1873 H. ROGERS Orig. Bible (1874) 411 We may wait for such an objector before^ indulging in the equal Quixotry of confuting him, Quiyke, obs. form of QUICK a. Quiz (kwiz), sb.l Also 8 quis. [Of obscure origin : possibly a fanciful coinage, but it is doubtful whether any reliance can be placed on the anecdote of its invention by Daly, a Dublin theatre- manager. Senses 3 and 4 are app. from Quiz ^.1 1. The anecdote is given by Smart in his Walker Remodelled 1836, but is omitted in the ed. of 1840. The very circumstantial version in F. T. Porter's Cleanings fy Reminiscences (1875) 32 gives the date of the alleged invention as 1791 ; but this is later than the actual appearance of the word and its derivative quizzity.\ 1. An odd or eccentric person, in character or quizzes in the rime of Sir Thopaz the wearisome idleness of the French romance. absol. 1815 Sporting Mag. XLV. 161 All were sneering at Sam, and they quizz'd and theygaz'd. iSTpGREEN^^/.ni. (1901) 254 What a charming tongue Latin is for quiz/ing in. 1 t2. intr. To play with a quiz (W'. 2). Obs. a 1800 MOORE in Mem. \. n The ladies too, when in the streets, . . Went quizzing on, to show their shapes and graceful mien. QUIZZINESS. Quiz (kwiz), v* dial, and U. S. [Prob. a transferred use of prec., by association with question or inquisitive..] trans, a. To question, interrogate (a person) ; U.S. to examine (a student or class) orally (cf. Quiz j^). Also absol. b. To find out (a thing) by questioning. 1886 ELWORTHY (K. Som. Wordlik. s.v., Her on't be very long vore her'll quiz it all out. 1893 FERGUSSON My Village xi. 99 She would . . gossip and quiz her visitors as to what was going on in the village. Quiz (kwiz), z>.3 rare-1 . [Echoic.] intr. To make a whizzing sound. 1866 Village on Cliff xiii. in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 526 ihere was a sound of grasshoppers quizzing at their feet. [f. Quiz z/.i + -ABLE.] That Qurzzable, a. may be quizzed. Hence QuizzaW'lity. '797 The Quiz No. 13. 85 Every body seems to set me down as a butt made on purpose to be ridiculed,.. as if I had I his man is quizable ', pasted in large letters on my back. 1849 Blackw. Mag. LXV1. 687 It may be something satirical, if they see anything quizzable something about yourself. 1858 CARLVLE Fredk. Gt. v. vii. I. 616 Even book-men . . are good for something, more especially if rich mines of quizzability turn-out to be workable in them. So Qnizza'cions a., given to quizzing. Quizzato-rial a., of a quizzing character. Quizzee', one who is quizzed. 1810 BENTHAM Packing d82i) 179 Another epigram, still more pointed and quizzatorial than the Italian one. 1823 R. P. WARD Tremaine I. xxiv. 184 For quizzing to take 1519 HORMAN Vulg. 279 b, Thou playest featly at the tynis and very quyuerly. 1637 GILLESPIE Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. Aiv, Whiles ourOpposites so quiverlygoe about. .is it time for us., to sit still! So f Qui-verness, activity, etc. Obs. 1338 BALE Thre Laiues 1323 And toke from me cleane the quyuernesse ofbodye. 1581 J. BELL tfaddon's Ansiu. Osor. 142 The Goale is not attained by the quyvernes of the person, nor successe of battell by prowesse. ' ' II Qui Vive (kz v/"v). lit. [F., (long) live who ? a sentinel's challenge, intended to discover to which party the person challenged belongs, and properly requiring an answer of the form (vive) le rot, la France, etc.] On the qtti vive, on the alert or look-out. 1726 SWIFT in rope's Wks. (1871) VII. 82 It is imagined that I must be..alway upon the qitivive and the slip-slop. 1752 FIELDING Amelia Wks. 1775 X. 223 Though he be a little too much on the giti-vive, he is a man of great honour. 1833 MARRYAT P. Simple lii, This put us all on the q ui vive. ' ' 1883 E. P. ROE in Harper's Mag. Dec. 56/1 What now ? cried Burtis, all on the gui vive. Quixote (kwi-ks^t), sb. Also 7 -ot, 8 -iot, 9 -otte. [The name of the hero of Cervantes' romance (see DON sbl = c), Sp. quixote, now written quijote (kz'xtf'te) a cuisse.] An enthusiastic visionary person like Don Quixote, inspired by lofty and chivalrous but false or unrealizable ideals. 1648 Merc. Prog. No. i. A ij, The Romance's and Gazetta's of the famous Victories and Exploits of the godly Quixots. 11658 CLEVELAND Gen. Poems, etc. (1677) a Thus the Quixots of this Age fight with the Windmils of their own heads. 1786-7 BONNYCASTLE Astron. i. 17 There are Quixotes and pedants in every profession. 1811 JEFFERSON Writ. (1830) IV. 164 What these Quixottes are clamoring for. 1896^Spectator 7 Mar. 337/1 Where the more sober thinker fails, the Quixote is often of service. Comb. 1800 MRS. HERVEY Monrlray Fain. IV.4I Quixotelike, going to fight when he had no occasion. b. attrib. passing into adj. = QUIXOTIC. 1708 OZELL tr. Boileau's Lalrin IV. (1730) 209 A weak Defence for Quixiot kings. 1757 LADY M. W. MONTAGU Let. to C'less flute 7 July, The Quixote reputation of redressing wrongs. 1782 H. WALPOLE Lett, to M. Cole 14 Feb. (184^6) VI. 160 My diet-drink is not all of so Quixote a disposition. 1810 BENTHAM Packing (1821) 198 Our Quixote Sheriff. Hence Qui'xote v. intr. (also with zV),to act like a Quixote. 1702 VANBRUGH False Friend v. i, When you . . are upon your rantipole adventures, you shall Quixot it by your self for Lopez. 1803 JANE PORTER Thaddeus (1826) I. vi. 131, I will not be the first to tell him of our quixoting. Quixotic (kwiksjrtik), a. (sh.~) [f. QUIXOTE sl>.] 1. Of : persons Resembling Don Quixote ; hence, striving with appearance. Now rare. 1782 lofty enthusiasm for visionary ideals. 1815 J. ADAMS Wks. (1856) X. 157, I considered Miranda as a vagrant, a vagabond, a Quixotic adventurer. 1857 HUGHES Tom Brown i. i,T'his family training., makes them eminently quixotic. 1896 Spectator ^ Mar. 336 Any one can exceed, but few can be really Quixotic. 2. Of actions, undertakings, etc. : Characteristic of, appropriate to, Don Quixote. 1851 GALLENGA Italy 131 A daring that would seem almost ague and qi MAD. D'ARBLAY Early Diary 24 June, He's a droll quiz, and I rather like him. 1785 Span. Rivals 8 Ay, he's a queer Quis. 1793 in W. Roberts Looker-on No. 54 (1794) II. 311 Some college cell, Where muzzing quizzes mutter monkish schemes. 1818 EARL DUDLEY Lett. 14 Feb. (1840) 196 Nor are we by any means such quizzes or such bores as the wags pretend. 1852 MRS. SMYTHIES Bride Elect xiii, If she really means to marry that quiz for the sake of his thousands. 1857 C. BRONTE Professor iii, He was not odd no quiz. b. An odd-looking thing, rare ~1 . 1798 JANE AUSTEN Northaug. Abb. (1850) 26 Where did you get that quiz of a hat? f2. BANDALORE, q.v. Obs. c 17^90 in Moore Mem. I. 12 The Duke ,. was, I recollect, playing with one of those toys called quizzes. 1792 B. Munckausen (1790) II. xi. 137 She darted and recoiled the quizzes in her right and left hand. #1833 MOORE Mem. I. ii A certain toy very fashionable about the year 1789 or 1790 called in French a * bandalore ' and in English a * quiz '. 3. One who quizzes. 1797 The Quiz No. 13. 85 Now, gentlemen, as you have taken to yourselves the name of Quizzes, I request to know [etc.]. 1836 Ibid. No. i. 4/2 A trtie is Quiz imperturbable : therefore is Talleyrand the Prince of Quizzers. 1870 Q. Rev. July 238 She could write letters to Horace Walpole (perhaps because she knew him to be a quiz) in a vein untinctured by narrowness or pharisaism. 1899 Eng. Hist. Rev. April 36 Braving the ridicule with which it pleased the quizzes of the day to asperse the husband chosen for her. 4. A practical joke ; a hoax, a piece of humbug, banter or ridicule ; a jest or witticism. i8o7_ Antid. Miseries Hum. Life 121, I was engaged a few . . nights ago in a good quiz for a watchman. 1810 SCOTT Fam. Lett. 14 Apr. (1894) I. vi. 171, 1 am impatient to know if the whole be not one grand blunder or quiz. 1826 Jrnl, n Feb., I should have thought the thing a quiz, but that the novel was real. 1835 WILLIS Pencillings\\. Ixiv. 189 Whipping in with a quiz or a witticism whenever he could get an opportunity. 1840 HOOD Up the Rhine no Frank said he was travelling for Rundell and Bridge, but I suspect that was only a quiz. 1850 T. A. TROLLOPE Impress. Wand, vi. 77 We have . . a quiz on all and each of the newlyarisen tribe ofjournalists. b. The act or practice of quizzing. 1819 QuizzicalGaz. No. 5/1 The Editor, -declares this the only article in the Paper devoid of Quiz, a 1845 HOOD Tale Trumpet xxx, You may join the genteelest party that is, And enjoy all the scandal, and gossip, and quiz. 1870 GREEN Lett. in. (1901) 254 What a taste for quiza Professorship seems to develop. Quiz (kwiz), j.2 U.S. [f. Quiz z;.2] An act of quizzing or questioning; spec, an oral examination of a student or class by a teacher. 1891 in Cent. Diet. 1895 J. W. BROWN in Proc. vent. Instruct, Deaf'314 My first lesson should be in the form of a quiz. Quiz (kwiz), z>.i tcf- Q UIZ sb^\ 1. trans. To make sport or fun of (a person or thing), to turn to ridicule ; occasionally, to regard with an air of mockery. 1796 Campaigns 1793-4, II. viii. 51 And quiz every blockhead accounted a boar. 1802 MAR. EDGEWORTH Moral T. (1816) I. iv. 19 He his spent time in . . ridiculing, or, in his own phrase, quizzing every sensible young man. 1825 C. M. WESTMACOTT English Spy I. 231 Quizzing the little daughter of Terpsichore through his eye-glass. 1833 MARRYAT P. Simple (1863) 113 Young gentlemen are apt to quiz; and I think that being quizzed hurts effect, there must be two . . parties, the quizzer and quizzee. 1830 BENTHAM Wks. (1838-43) X. 285, I made a little quizzacious attack the upon bishop. 1840 New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 526 Taking care to make their remarks .. loud enough to be heard by the quizzees. Quizzer (kwi-zsi). [f. Quiz my authority with the men. 1874 GREEN Short Hist. v. 214 Chaucer . . z/.i + -EH i.] 1. One who quizzes or is given to quizzing. 1797 The Quiz No. 13. 84 At every corner, I am accosted by some of these Quizzers. 1810 SCOTT Let. to Ellis in Lockltart xx, This said Kehama affords cruel openings for the cjuizzers. a 1843 HOOD Tale Trumpet xvii, The mischievous quizzers, Sharp as knives, but double as scissors. 111876 HT. MARTINEAU Autobiog. (1877) II. 306 My lectures were maliciously misrepresented by a quizzer here and there. 2. = QUIZZING-GLASS, rare'1 . 1806 SURR Winter in Loxii. II. 83 'You must have a ' qnizzer.' What is that ?' said Edward. ' Oh, an eye-glass.' Quizzery (kwi'zari). [f. Quiz .l + -ERY.] The practice of quizzing an ; instance of this. 1821 Examiner 348/1 A law.. destructive to mirth and quizzery. 1825 T. H. LISTER Granby Ivi. (1836) 394 He began with a little gentle qnizzery of the Ladies Manvers. i&f i CAROLINE Fox Old Friends (1882) 122 Of Mrs. Carlyle's quizzeries, he thinks [etc.]. Qui'zziblo, a. and sb. rare. [f. Quiz t>.l + -IBLE.] a. = adj. QUIZZABLE. b. sb. Something quizzable. 1816 MOORE Let. to Byron 29 Feb., There is so much of the quizzible in all he writes. 1822 I, WILSON in Blackw. Mag. XI. 479 On the whole the book wants vigour, and it is full of quizzibles. Quizzical (kwi-zikal), a. [f. Quiz sbl and z/.l] 1. Of the nature of a quiz or oddity; causing amusement; comical. i8oo MRS. HERVEY t Mourtray Fattt. II. 47 Nothing but a little joke of mine, at his quizzical figure. 1812 Sporting Mag. XL. 263 Whilst they were quizzing others, they., made themselves quizzical. 1842 MOTLEY Corr. (1889) I. iv. joi One of the most quizzical of old-fashioned, towns of quizzical Germany. 1873 HOLLAND A. Bonnie, xi. 188 With a quizzical expression of countenance, as if he were puzzled to know exactly what his feelings were. Comb. 1834 Taits Mag. I. 440/2 Some quizzical-looking fellow-countryman in a seedy coat. 2. Given to quizzing ; pertaining to, or characterized by, quizzing. 1801 Sporting Mag. XVII. 140 One of our quizzical cor. respondents remarks, that this is the age for producing fat Hence Quizzica'lity, Qui zzicalness. 1821 New Monthly Mag. I. 574 The ne plus ultra of unbecoming quizzicality. 1825 Ettgl. Life I. 76 Cornelia pouring forth her badinage and her quizzicalness. 1831 Fraser's Mag. IV. 85 Somewhat of quizzicality began to be associated with the phrase. Quizzically (kwi'zikali), adv. [f. QUIZZICAL + LY^.] In a quizzical manner. 1849 G BRONTE Shirley xvii, Somewhat quizzically scanquizzically close. 1878 M. C. JACKSON utaperons
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