questuary
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin quaestuārius.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɛstjʊəɹi/, /ˈkwɛstʃʊəɹi/, /ˈkwɛstʃəɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkwɛstjʊˌɛɹi/, /ˈkwɛst͡ʃʊˌɛɹi/
Adjective edit
questuary (comparative more questuary, superlative most questuary)
- (archaic) Acquisitive; greedy.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- 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.
Noun edit
questuary (plural questuaries)