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a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) v. xxxi. 3599 With this Point of Catholick Faith we mingle no Doctrine, no Opinion, which may but questionably pollute or defile it.

1679 in A. Cowley Poem Late Civil War Publ. to Rdr. sig. A4 Some Poems written by him on the late Civil War, of which the following Copy is questionably a part.

1700 R. Brown English-school Reformed 101 When any thing is indifferently or questionably foretold..in the first Persons, then shall is used; but when a thing is absolutely promised, or threat'ned, then will is used.

1842 N. Hawthorne Sister Years 148 ‘A happy New Year!’ cried a watchman, eyeing her figure very questionably, but without the least suspicion that he was addressing the New Year in person.

1859 G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes i. 8 This dim prehistoric dawn, through which the shadowy figures of..Druids questionably hover.

1885 Mag. Art Sept. 443/1 An eccentric and questionably drawn performance.

1944 Notes & Queries 30 Dec. 294/1 The flint used in petrol lighters is a cerium-iron alloy, and has very questionably taken over the name given..to lumps of silicone oxide found in chalk.

1994 Gramophone July 79/3 Sometimes his own choice of tempo might be thought questionably fast—as perhaps in the Italianate No. 8 in D flat, Op. 27 No. 2.