Meanings
comparative more quisquous · superlative most quisquous · alternative quiscos · alternative quiscus · alternative quisqouse · alternative quisquose
- ScotlandrareHard to deal with; dubious; of people: having a character difficult to assess.
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Besides, the truths delivered by ministers in the fields upon quisquous subjects, with no small caution by some, and pretty safely, were heard and taken up by the hearers, according to their humours and opinions, many times far different from, and altogether without the cautions given by the preacher, which either could not, or were not understood by them.
1830, rev. Robert Wodrow, rev. Robert Burns, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restoration to the Revolution, Tom 2Synonyms: mysterious, perplexing, puzzling, dubious, doubtful, debatable, quisquis, quiscoskos · Antonyms: clear, familiar, indubious
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHard to deal with; dubious; of people: having a character difficult to assess.
Origin
- Latinquis“of what kind”
- Latinquisquis“whosoever”
- Englishquisquous
Shared with quisquis and quiscoskos; from Latin quisquis (“whosoever”) or by reduplication of Latin quis (“of what kind”).
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