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Definition of Questor
1. n. An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state.
Definition of Questor
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of quaestor) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Questor
1. quaestor [n -S] - See also: quaestor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Questor
Literary usage of Questor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1857)
"Cicero, when he was questor of Sicily, discovered the tomb of Archimedes overgrown
with bushes and weeds, having the sphere and cylinder engraved on it, ..."
2. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake (1851)
"(See questor.) QUAGGA (equus quagga). This animal, which is an inhabitant of the
southern parts of Africa, is not unlike the zebra; its ears, however, ..."
3. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"He was afterwards appointed consul, by his pupil Gratian, then en,peror, AD 379 ;
and besides the dignity of questor, to which he had been nominated by ..."
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