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Definition of Quizzery
1. the act of interrogation [n QUIZZERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quizzery
Literary usage of Quizzery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"Confess quaint quizzery, though it makes on« wince— SIR A. WYLIE. — I bar what
wounds a LADY or a PRINCE.— MR NORTH. —Is, after all, not quite a hanging ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1843)
"But Lord Buckhurst had served too severe an apprenticeship to the quizzery of
White's It was mortifying enough to Lord Buckhurst to feel himself so ..."
3. Stories of American Life; by American Writers by Mary Russell Mitford (1830)
"... not sensitive—for he must stand quizzery ; not chivalrous—for then he must
take sides with the weak ; not conscientious —for then he must discountenance ..."
4. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1832)
"The former has this advantage, that, when detected, its enormity may be so great
as to enable the person to pass it off as a piece of quizzery, which can ..."
5. Granby: A Novel by Thomas Henry Lister (1826)
"He began with a little gentle quizzery of the ladies Man- vers, (nobody was
th.en immediately within hearing) ; and presently observed, after allowing them ..."
6. The Legendary, Consisting of Original Pieces, Principally Illustrative of by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1828)
"... exquisite quizzery so mingled, that no one could tell whether it was likelier
that thou wouldst die harlequin or hero—master of the art of elegant ..."
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