Meanings
adjectivequestuary (comparative more questuary, superlative most questuary)
comparative more questuary · superlative most questuary
- archaicAcquisitive; greedy.
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.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinquaestuārius
- Englishquestuary
From Latin quaestuārius.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “questuary,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/questuary.
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