Word Meanings - QUESTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to QUESTOR)

• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• QUESTORSHIP
  The office, or the term of office, of a questor.
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• STYLOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
• STYLOPS
  A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• STYLOMMATA
  See STYLOMMATOPHORA
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• STYLISTIC
  Of or pertaining to style in language. "Stylistic trifles." J. A. Symonds. The great stylistic differences in the works ascribed to him . G. P. Marsh.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• ABOLISHMENT
  The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.