questrist
English
Etymology
Related to quest.
Noun
questrist (plural questrists)
- (obsolete) A seeker or pursuer.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
- Some five or six and thirty of his knights,
Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;
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