请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 questionist
释义

questionistn.

Brit. /ˈkwɛstʃ(ə)nɪst/, U.S. /ˈkwɛstʃ(ə)nəst/, /ˈkwɛʃtʃ(ə)nəst/
Forms: 1500s–1600s questionest, 1500s– questionist.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: question n., question v., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < either question n. or question v. + -ist suffix. Compare post-classical Latin questionista (at the University of Oxford) undergraduate in the last term (from c1250 in British sources), habitual questioner (14th cent. in a British source with reference to the devil, 1552 in a British source with reference to a scholastic theologian). With sense 1 compare earlier questionary n.1 1, questioner n. 1.
1. A (habitual or systematic) questioner, spec. in theological matters. Now rare.In early use applied to certain Scholastic philosophers, such as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > adherent of
questionary1435
questionist1528
school doctor1528
schoolman1528
school divine1536
summist1536
scholastical1565
scholastic1604
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > an enquirer, questioner > habitual
questionary1435
questionist1528
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. b viii They sent thether Thomas and Scote, With wother questionistes.
1534 W. Turner tr. J. von Watt Of Olde God & Newe sig. Rij Opiniators & questionistes braulynge and striuyng among them selues.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 56 The worst of all, as Questionistes, and all the barbarous nation of scholemen.
1603 J. Hayward Answer Conf. conc. Succession ix. sig. T4v Is there any more readie way to proue an heretike, then in being a curious questionist with God?
1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania iv. 232 They let alone the trifling niceties of Questionists.
1762 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 84/1 Your respectable rendezvous of curious questionists.
1812 S. T. Coleridge Let. to Mrs. Coleridge in Lett. (1895) 581 He is a fearful questionist, whenever he thinks he can pick up any information.
1874 Notices Proc. Royal Inst. Great Brit. 7 184 (note) A questionist in the ‘Educational Times’.
1919 C. L. Graves Mr. Punch's Hist. of Great War 173 Some say that it was done to muzzle Mr. MacCallum Scott, hitherto one of the most pertinacious of questionists.
1981 16th Cent. Jrnl. 12 79 Although he does not deal with every chapter in the Politics according to the same rigid pattern, Hakluyt does generally follow the traditional ‘questionist’ method in organizing his epitome.
2. At the universities of Cambridge and Harvard: an undergraduate in the last term before final examinations. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > 3rd or final year student
questionist1549
upperclassman1586
sophister1841
third season man1841
tertian1857
1549 in J. Lamb Coll. Lett. Corpus Christi Coll., Cambr. (1838) 117 And at that congregation was admitted D. Sands v Bach. of divinite ix Mrs. of Arte and iiii Questionists.
1574 M. Stokys in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. A. p. iv The Questionists shall gyue the Bedels warnynge..that they may proclayme..thentrynge of their Questions.
1650 in J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) I. 518 In case any of the Sophisters, Questionists, or Inceptors, fail in the premises..they shall be deferred to the following year.
1661 K. W. Confused Characters sig. K6 A Petition of Questionests to Mr. Frost for their degrees.
1773 J. Jebb Remarks Present Mode Educ. (ed. 3) App. 20 The Examination of the Questionists; this being the appellation of the Students, during the last six weeks of their preparation.
1788 J. Beverley Acct. Ceremonies Univ. Cambr. 32 The Vicechancellor..appoints the Time when the public Examinations of the Questionists are to begin.
1829 Times 27 Jan. 3/2 The Examiners seem disposed to follow the example of the Sister University, for the unprecedented number of 31 Questionists have this year been rejected!!
1887 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 64 If any Questionist have been prevented by illness from keeping all his terms, a Certificate must be delivered.
1911 F. J. Snell Customs Old Eng. ix. 110 The third stage was reached when the ‘questionist’, as he was now, stood for his bachelor's degree.
1982 16th Cent. Jrnl. 13 74 He was of the diocese of Lichfield, questionist in 1492 and M.A. in 1495.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1528
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/31 1:22:16