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Webster 1913 Edition


Questuary

Ques′tu-a-ry

,
Adj.
[L.
quaestuarius
, from
quaestus
gain, profit,
quaerere
,
quaesitum
, to seek for, earn.]
Studious of profit.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

Ques′tu-a-ry

,
Noun.
One employed to collect profits.
[R.]
“The pope’s questuaries.”
Jer. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Questuary

QUES'TUARY

,
Adj.
Studious of profit.

QUES'TUARY

,
Noun.
One employed to collect profits.

Definition 2024


questuary

questuary

English

Adjective

questuary (comparative more questuary, superlative most questuary)

  1. (archaic) Acquisitive; greedy.
    • Sir Thomas Browne
      Although lapidaries and questuary enquirers affirm it, yet the writers of minerals, and natural speculators, conceive that stones which bear this name to be a mineral concretion.

Noun

questuary (plural questuaries)

  1. (archaic) One employed to collect profits.