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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.
QUES'TUARY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
questuary
questuary
English
Adjective
questuary (comparative more questuary, superlative most questuary)
- (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.
- Sir Thomas Browne
Noun
questuary (plural questuaries)
- (archaic) One employed to collect profits.