Meanings
nounquestrist (plural questrists)
plural questrists
- obsoleteA seeker or pursuer.
Some five or six and thirty of his knights, Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]
Origin
Related to quest.
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