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c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 207 We will resemble thaim that seen the fier fast brennynge by thair places and habitacions and ben in questions and debate amonge thaim to knowe who put therynne the fyre and who aught..to put him in deuoire for to skonche it.]

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxii. f. cliiii^v A longe whyle this fyght stoode in questyon whether partye shulde opteyne victory.

1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 177/2 There was principally in question whither woorshyppyng of ymages..were lawfull or not.

1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 13 It hath beene in question and ambiguity.

1653 tr. J. Stegmann Brevis Disq. in Phenix (1708) II. 333 Unless we take that for errant which is in question..Whether the Pope be the infallible Judg of Controversies.

1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 138 Which is supposing the Thing in Question.

1746 J. Wesley Let. 25 June (1931) II. 69 The best way of deciding the points in question with us is cool and friendly argumentation.

1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. iv. 24 As long as a seat was in question the battle should of course be fought to the nail.

1935 M. Anderson Winterset II. ii. 74 In all my years on the bench..not once has my decision been in question save in this case.

2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 442/2 The Pleistocene Chinese ape Gigantopithecus undoubtedly exceeded that size; however, since no postcranial bones have been discovered, its true size remains in question.

1563 in D. H. Fleming Reg. Christian Congregation St. Andrews 162 That same nycht Barbara Sandelandis wes lychtar of her barne in question.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. i. 34 His Father..had (besides this Gentleman in question) Two other Sonnes. View more context for this quotation

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iv. 16 Names, called Negative; which are notes to signifie that a word is not the name of the thing in question.

1746 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 67 The Eels in sour Paste are the Animalcules in Question.

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. i He does not think his friend..ever saw the lady in question.

1831 J. Mackintosh Hist. Eng. II. 96 The very ill-fated man in question was John de la Pole.

1893 H. D. Traill Social Eng. Introd. p. xxxvi Discoveries of a far-reaching..character, have during the period in question been made.

1933 E. A. Powell Slanting Lines of Steel iv. 57 An ‘eye-witness’ account by the correspondent in question of the bombardment and fall of Antwerp.

1992 Step-by-Step 8 i. 56/1 The line-drawing of the hourglass in question was already in his library, long ago scanned from an old book.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues xv. 222 The people..dyd much repent them that they had not condemned Alcibiades,..while his offense was in question before them.

1589 Articles Against Horsey in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) App. iii. 330 John Chapele..was..ymprisoned almost a yeare, in question to have bene executed.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 60 He that was in question for the rob'ry. View more context for this quotation