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QUIZZING.
The action of the vb.
1797 The Quiz No. 31. 208 On Quizzing. 1802 G. ROSE
Diaries (1860) I. 508 note, He made a most brilliant
speech with much quizzing on Mr. A. 1830 D'IsRAELl
Chat. I, III. v. 75 A remarkable instance of .. persiflage,
or what we now call quizzing. 1861 SHIRLEY [J. Skellon]
Nugx Crit. ix. 402 That indirect and gentlemanly quizzing,
..so much relished by the House of Commons.
Comb. 1805 Edin. Rev. VI. 184 He acquits himself of all
share in a quizzing scene. 1806-7 J- BERESFORD Miseries
Hum. Life (1826) xviii. 213 Thinking his Critic a capital
Quizzing-stock.
Quizzing (kwi-zirj), ///. a. [f. as prec. + -ING 2 .]
That quizzes.
"797 The Quiz No. 31. 208 The supposed robber, was no
other than a quizzing fellow. 1806 SURR Winter in Lond.
III. 197 A subject of mirthful wonder to several quizzing
beaux. 1808 SCOTT Let. to Gifford 25 Oct. in Lockhart,
A notable subject for a quizzing article. 1866 FELTON Anc.
V Mod. Gr. II. v. 348 Attacked by the older students., with
all sorts of quizzing questions.
Qui-zzing-glass. [f. QUIZZING vbl. si.] A
single eye-glass ; a monocle. Cf. QUIZZES 2.
iSoj Europ. Mag. June 500 The prizes consisted of shawls,
parasols, handkerchiefs, quizzing glasses, &c. 1840-1 S.
WARREN Ten Thousand a r(ed. Warne) 96/2 A quizzingglass
was stuck in his right eye. 1885 J. PAYN Talk ofTmtm
I. 152 He wore round his neck what was then called a
quizzing-glass, held by the hand.
Qui'zzingly, adv. [f. QUIZZING ///. a. + -LY 2 .]
In a quizzing manner.
1831 Fraser*s Mag. IV. 147 A lady who was quizzingly
condoling with him. 1865 CARLYLE Fredk. Gt. xvn. ii.
(1872) VII. 23 Friedrich .. answers quizzingly: 'Island of
'
Tobago ?
Quizzish. (kwi-zij), a. 1 0/is. [f. Quiz z>.l + -ISH.]
=
QUIZZICAL i. Also Comb.
1791 J. BUDWORTH Fortn. Ramtle i. 2 A very quizzish
looking man threw himself into a knowing attitude. 1797
MRS. A. M. BENNETT Beggar Girl IV. ii. 51, I cant help
laughing to think how quizzish the old Doctor will look
when he finds my lord has got the girl.
Qui'zzity. rare 1
,
[f. Quiz rf.l] Oddity.
1788 ANNA SEWARD Lett. (iSn) II. 91 His height and
proportion mighty slender.. nor are his sharp features.. a
whit behind them in quizzity.
Quizzy (kwi-zi), a. [f.Quizrf.l] =QUIZZICALI.
1797-1805 S. & HT. LEE Canterb. T. V. 13 She had taken
all this trouble for some quizzy old bachelor. Blacfnv.
1835
Mag. XXXVII. 84 A quizzy couple, self-proclaimed as man
and wife.
Quo, obs. variant of WHO.
Quo", abbrev. of QUOTH.
Ii Quoad _(kwOT-jed). [L., '
'
so far as ', as much
'
as ', as to ',
f. quo where, whither + ad to.] To
the extent of, as
regards, with respect to.
1741 GILBERT Reports ofCases in Equity 3 To supply the
Defect of the Will quoad that Daughter. 1807 VANCOUVER
Agnc. Devon (1813) 462 It will operate beneficially,
the
quoad
quantity applied. 1839 ARNOLD in ^(,844) II. ix.
The 149
Order of Deacons, which has been long, Quoad the
reality, dead. 187* E. BRADDON Life in fadiam. 58 His
peculiar position, .quoad the natives subject, .to him.
b. Quoad hoc, to this extent, as far as this, with
respect to this.
1601 J. CHAMBER Apt. fudic. Astral, iv. 24 It followeth,
that these
figure-flingers may sometime hit, and sometime
. . . 21 at wc
they do have must .. render the hermaphrodite imperfect
quoad hoc. 1884 Law Times LXXVIII. 169/2 The Bankr
Insolvent Court Act., which quoad hoc is unre.
C. Qnoad sacra (s^'-kra), ' as far as concerns
sacred matters , used esp. in Scotland with ref. to
Quod (kwpd), v.
76
[f. QUOD sil] trans. To put
in prison.
i8ia J. H. VAUX Flash Diet. s.v., To quod a person is to send
him to gaol. 1813 in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. 282 Since Carlije's
been quoded, We wanted some shopman about of your size.
1850 THACKERAY Ballad of Eliza Davis, The cell where
she was quodded, In the Close of Clerkenwell.
Quod, Quod-a, obs. varr. QUOTH, QUOTHA.
t Quo:dammo-dota:tive, a. and si. Obs. [f. L.
quodam modo in a certain way + -(T)ATIVE.] a.
adj. Existing in a certain manner, b. si. A thing
that exists in a certain way.
1656 STANLEY Hist. Philos. vin. l. xiii. (1687) 437/1 Things
are subdivided into foure Genus's, Subjects, and Qualitalives
and Quodammodotatives in themselves, and Quodam.
modotatives as to others. Ibid. xvii. 438/2 Aristo. .defined
Quodammodotative-Relatives to be those, whose being i:
. .their Quodammodotative being to one another.
QuO'ddity. rare. [f. L. quod (that) which,
neut. of qui who + -ITT.] A quasi-scholastic term
formed on the anal, of QUIDDITY, q.v.
mind his instances, his quiddities and his quoddities.
Quo'ddle, v. Now dial, (quaddle). [var. of
WADDLE : cf. quag and wag.'} To waddle.
1661 STILLINGFL. Orig.Sacr. in. i. 16 You will presently
see . . the Duck quoddling into a pool 1886 ELWORTHY
IV. Sam. Word-bk., Quaddle, to waddle.
Quod(d)le, Quodgell, obs. forms of CODDLE.
CUDGELL.
(kwBLOvTGLsofr.,
guodhhtanti those that run after their own fancy or
imagination, and do what they list.
B. adj. Pertaining or relating to quodlibets.
i89S tr. Hugos Notre Dame i.
i, Down with the disputations,
cardinal, and quodlibetary.
a. rare.
[f.
^QuodlibO'tic, as prec. + =
-ic.]
, n w Pa a "e the
..of some principles
Quodhbetick Presbyters ! "" i8iiSiHW HAMH