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‖ vexata quæstio|vɛkˈsɑːtə ˈkwiːstɪɒ| [L.] = vexed question s.v. vexed ppl. a. 4.
1813Edin. Rev. Oct. 143 We do not mean to enter upon the vexata quæstio of the tones and delivery. 1838J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. XXXI. 393 The vexata quaestio of codification..has now passed into one of Practice. 1889G. N. Curzon Russia in Central Asia ix. 368 This has long been a vexata quæstio of Central Asian politics. 1978Language LIV. 425 For the vexata quaestio of the ‘gorgia toscana’, cf. most recently Izzo 1972. |