单词 | questionist |
释义 | questionistn. 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 |
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