questuary

questuary

English

Etymology

From Latin quaestuarius.

Adjective

questuary (comparative more questuary, superlative most questuary)

1. (archaic) Acquisitive; greedy.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     Although lapidaries and questuary enquirers affirm it, yet the writers of minerals, and natural speculators, conceive that stones which bear this name to be a mineral concretion.

Noun

questuary (plural questuaries)

1. (archaic) One employed to collect profits.