Word Meanings - MARAUDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.
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- PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - QUESTORSHIP
The office, or the term of office, of a questor. - QUESTIONIST
A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer. - QUESTIONABLENESS
The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious. - QUESTRIST
A seeker; a pursuer. "Hot questrists after him." Shak. - QUESTION
1. The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer. 2. Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question. There arose a question between some - QUEST
1. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc. Upon an hard adventure yet in quest. Spenser. Cease your quest of love. Shak. There ended - QUESTER
One who seeks; a seeker. - QUESTIONNAIRE
= Questionary, above. - QUESTIONLESS
Unquestioning; incurious. - QUESTIONABLY
In a questionable manner. - QUESTANT
One who undertakes a quest; a seeker. Shak. - ROVER
A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball. Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. A sort of arrow. All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt - QUESTIONER
One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson. - BOOTY
That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order - QUESTIONABILITY
The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo. - QUESTMAN
One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures. Specifically: A churchwarden's assistant; a sidesman. Blount. A collector of parish rents. Blount. - QUESTIONARY
Inquiring; asking questions; testing. "Questionary epistles." Pope. - QUESTOR
An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a Note: At an early period there were also public accusers styled questors, but the office was soon abolished. - QUESTMONGER
One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits. Bacon. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - CONTROVERSER
A disputant. - EQUESTRIAN
1. Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games. 2. Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue. An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains. Spectator. 3. Belonging to, or composed - CONTROVERSAL
1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle. - SACROVERTEBRAL
Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle. - ACQUEST
Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier. (more info) acquisitum, for L. acquisitum, p. p. of 1. Acquisition; the thing gained. Bacon. - RETROVERT
To turn back. - UNCONTROVERSORY
Not involving controversy. Bp. Hall. - SEQUESTRABLE
Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration. - IMPROVER
One who, or that which, improves. - BEQUEST
AS. cwide a saying, becwe to bequeath. The ending -est is probably 1. The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B. 2. That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift. - SEQUESTER
To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand - EQUESTRIANISM
The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism. - UNQUESTIONABLE
1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv. - CONTROVERSOR
A controverser.