Meanings
adjectivequisquilian (comparative more quisquilian, superlative most quisquilian)
comparative more quisquilian · superlative most quisquilian
- rareWithout value or importance, insignificant.
What Miscreant quisquilian Scraps and Fragments have the Arians, Papists and Socinians to oppose to all those deliberate and concordant Testimonies?
1716, Myles Davies, “Of the other Writers most inclinable to the Reformation of England, under Queen Mary: With continuance of Mr. Pollet's Latin Dissertation against the Arians, Socinians and Papists, translated and abridg'd.”, in Athenae Britannicae, or, A critical history of the Oxford and Cambridge writers and writings, […] , London: Myles Davies, page 394
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