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▪ I. † ˈquestionary, n.1 Obs. rare.
Also 9 quæst-.
[ad. med.L. questiōnāri-us: see question and -ary1.]
1. = questionist.
1435Misyn Fire of Love 3, I trowe þies þinges here contenyd, of þies questionaries..may noȝt be vnderstandyd. 1563Fox A. & M. 589/2 Then did he rede openly..Paules Epistles, and put by Douns and Dorbel, & yet he was a questionary him selfe. 1787Minor ii. xx. 141 Are you become a questionary at this time of day?
2. = questor 1.
1820Scott Abbot xxvii, A quæstionary or pardoner, one of those itinerants who hawked about..reliques.
▪ II. ˈquestionary, n.2
[ad. med.L. questiōnārium; or, in mod. use, ad. F. questionnaire: see -ary1.]
A list of questions; † a treatise in the form of questions, a catechism. Also attrib.
Now largely superseded by questionnaire, exc. in Med. use.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. Pref., This lytell questyonary & formulary..haue ben often requyred and soughte for. 1887Athenæum 10 Sept. 345/3 Answers to the society's questionary of sociology and ethnography. 1951Lancet 7 July 23/1 The questionary method used in this particular study has certain limitations. 1957Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Sept. 550/2 The clinical concept of the disappointed undergraduate is therefore given some support by the answers to a general questionary. 1959Times 5 Sept. 10/2 The proposed Welsh dialect atlas, information for which was gathered by means of a questionary of about 1,000 items. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Jan. 97 How did you answer when the item was difficult? And why did you answer in such a manner? (verbalization questionary). 1977Lancet 27 Aug. 417/2 After 21 days, the patient was interviewed by one of us..using a standard questionary.
▪ III. questionary, a.|ˈkwɛstjənərɪ|
[ad. late L. quæst-, questiōnāri-us (Boethius): see question and -ary1.]
1. Having the form of a question; consisting of questions; conducted by means of questioning.
1653Manton Exp. James iii. 13 The questionary proposal intimateth the rare contemporation of these two qualities. a1715Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 35 The questionary trial came last, Every Minister asking such questions as he pleased. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 60 The reply confirms the meaning of the questionary salute. 1838Chalmers Wks. XIII. 75 Let us institute a questionary process upon the doings.
2. That asks questions. rare—1.
1711Steele Spect. No. 80 ⁋6 Let those two questionary Petitioners try to do thus with their Who's and their Whiches. |