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  • noun Plural form of questrist.

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  • Nevertheless in the storm he has no knights with him, and in III.vii. 15 ff. we hear that 'some five or six and thirty of his knights' [269] are 'hot questrists after him,' as though the real reason of his leaving Goneril with so small a train was that he had hurried away so quickly that many of his knights were unaware of his departure.

    Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

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