Questionability to Quiddit

Questionability
(Ques`tion*a*bil"i*ty) n. The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo.

Questionable
(Ques"tion*a*ble) a.

1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. [R.]

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; suspicious.

It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.T.
Baker.

Syn. — Disputable; debatable; uncertain; doubtful; problematical; suspicious.

Questionableness
(Ques"tion*a*ble*ness), n. The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.

Questionably
(Ques"tion*a*bly), adv. In a questionable manner.

Questionary
(Ques"tion*a*ry) a. Inquiring; asking questions; testing. "Questionary epistles." Pope.

Questionary
(Ques"tion*a*ry), n. One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.

Questioner
(Ques"tion*er) n. One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson.

Questionist
(Ques"tion*ist), n.

1. A questioner; an inquirer. [Obs.]

2. (Eng. Univ.) A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination.

Questionless
(Ques"tion*less), a. Unquestioning; incurious. [R.]

Questionless
(Ques"tion*less), adv. Beyond a question or doubt; doubtless; certainly.[R.] South.

What it was in the apostles' time, that, questionless, it must be still.
Milton.

Questman
(Quest"man) n.; pl. Questmen One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures. Specifically: (a) A churchwarden's assistant; a sidesman. Blount. [Obs.] (b) A collector of parish rents. Blount. [Obs.]

Questmonger
(Quest"mon`ger) n. One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits. [Obs.] Bacon.

Questor
(Ques"tor) n. [L. quaestor, contr. fr. quaesitor, fr. quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, ask: cf. F. questeur.] (Rom. Antiq.) An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state. [Written also quæstor.]

At an early period there were also public accusers styled questors, but the office was soon abolished.

Questorship
(Ques"tor*ship), n. The office, or the term of office, of a questor.

Questrist
(Quest"rist) n. [See Quest.] A seeker; a pursuer. [Obs.] "Hot questrists after him." Shak.


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