Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Studious of gain; seeking gain; also, producing gain.
- noun A pardoner; a questionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Studious of profit.
- noun rare One employed to collect profits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Acquisitive; greedy.
- noun archaic One employed to collect
profits .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For although lapidaries and 'questuary' enquirers affirm it, &c.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Avarice, which is not only infidelity but idolatry, either from covetous progeny or questuary education, had no root in his breast, who made good works the expression of his faith, and was big with desires unto public and lasting charities; and surely, where good wishes and charitable intentions exceed abilities, theorical beneficency may be more than a dream.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Avarice, which is not only infidelity, but idolatry, either from covetous progeny or questuary [III. 11] education, had no root in his breast, who made good works the expression of his faith, and was big with desires unto public and lasting charities; and surely where good wishes and charitable intentions exceed abilities, theorical beneficency may be more than a dream.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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