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.
• 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.
• 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