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quæstorship|ˈkwiːstəʃɪp|
[f. quæstor + -ship.]
The office of quæstor.
1570Levins Manip. 141/5 Y⊇ Questorship, quæstura. 1581Savile Tacitus, Agricola (1622) 186 After his Questorship till he [Agricola] was created Tribune of the people. c1650Denham Of Old Age 94, I, five years after, at Tarentum wan The Quæstorship. 1834Lytton Pompeii i. iv, Your petty thirst for fasces and quæstorships. 1871Seeley Livy i. Introd. 90 Of all the great magistracies, the quaestorship was the lowest in dignity.
So † ˈquæstory (in 6 questorie). Obs. rare—1.
1533Bellenden Livy iv. (1822) 382 The small pepill had sic victorie, that thay belevit the questorie nocht to be the end of this honoure. |