Questor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Questor is a noun meaning Alternative spelling of quaestor.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of quaestor.
Example Sentences
Antony had occupied the high offices of questor and tribune, the first calling for literary ability, the second for skill as an orator.
I quitted the National Assembly, where a questor to succeed General Negrier, who was killed in June, was being nominated, and went to M. de Chateaubriand's house, No. 110, Rue du Bac. I was received by M. de Preuille, son-in-law of his nephew.
In this review of Brutus's army, who was under the command of gallant men, not braver officers than true patriots, he tells us, "that Sextus, the questor, was paymaster, secretary at war, and commissary general; and that the sacred discipline of the Romans required the closest connexion, like that of father and son, to subsist between the general of an army and his questor.
Word Forms
- questors
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quaestor, quester, questrist, inquisitor, pretor, taxor.
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