quisquilian
English
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Adjective
editquisquilian (comparative more quisquilian, superlative most quisquilian)
- (rare) Without value or importance, insignificant.
- 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, […] [1], London: Myles Davies, page 394:
- What Miscreant quisquilian Scraps and Fragments have the Arians, Papists and Socinians to oppose to all those deliberate and concordant Testimonies?