单词 | querier |
释义 | queriern. rare. 1. A person who queries; a questioner. rare before 20th cent.With quot. 1672 cf. query n.2 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > an enquirer, questioner asker?c1225 questioner?a1425 querorc1450 speererc1480 inquirer?c1570 querist1633 querier1672 inquirist1748 queryist1863 1672 W. Penn Spirit of Truth Vindicated 93 That would have been no Answer to their weighty Question, nor any allay to that earnest Enquiry..the Queriers were under. 1937 J. Thurber Lett. (2002) 245 I should like to have the queriers on my piece realize that there is no possibility of catching me up on an overlooked sloppiness. 1972 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 58 891 John Adams' cockiness about his country's military capacity matched that of the querier. 2002 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 21 Dec. d3 The queriers get the books they've been looking all over for—maybe even in time for Christmas. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 377/1 The knuller is also styled a ‘querier’, a name derived from his making inquiries at the doors of the houses as to whether his services are required. 1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 150/1 Querier, Schornsteinfeger, der von Thür zu Thüre geht. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1672 |
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