Word Meanings - QUESTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who undertakes a quest; a seeker. Shak.
Related words: (words related to QUESTANT)
- 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. - QUESTIONER
One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson. - QUESTIONABILITY
The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo. - SEEKER
One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments. A skeptic ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. Bullokar. (more info) - 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. - QUESTUARY
Studious of profit. Sir T. Browne. - QUESTIONABLE
1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak. 2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; - 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 - 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. - SEQUESTRABLE
Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration. - SELF-SEEKER
One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure. - 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 - 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. - 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. - SEQUESTRATE
To sequester. - UNQUESTIONED
1. Not called in question; not doubted. 2. Not interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined or examined into. Shak. She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went. Dryden. 3. Indisputable; not - CROSS-QUESTION
To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning. - SEQUESTRATION
The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary. A prerogative process empowering