quaestorshipn.
/ˈkwiːstəʃɪp/, /ˈkwʌɪstəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈkwɛstərˌʃɪp/ Chiefly Roman History.
The office or position of quaestor.
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1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Mi/2 Ye Questorship, quæstura.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 240 After his Questorship [L. quaesturam] till he [sc. Agricola] was created Tribune of the people.
1669 J. Denham Cato Major Introd. 6 I five years after at Tarentum wan The Quæstorship.
1747 W. Melmoth tr. Pliny Lett. I. iv. xv. 220 Asinius Bassus, the eldest son of Rufus, solicits the Questorship at the same time.
1777 W. Duncan tr. Cicero in C. Whitworth Select Orations II. xvi. 372 I countenanced you in your suit for the quæstorship.
1828 Times 14 Mar. 3/2 The club of the Liberals and Royalists in the Rue Grange Bataliere has already given symptoms of division with respect to the questorship of the Chamber.
1871 Seeley Livy i. Introd. 90 Of all the great magistracies, the quaestorship was the lowest in dignity.
1916 Classical Jrnl. 12 112 After his quaestorship, Murena returned to Asia to serve under Lucullus.
1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 18 Jan. 2 The victor will then preside over a further series of votes for the vice-presidencies and the quaestorships—quaestors being a combination of shop stewards and law lords.
1993 I. C. Butnaru Waiting for Jerusalem i. 4 A report of the Security Department of the Iasi Police Questorship entitled Briefing of the State of Mind and Order from July 22 to August 22, 1941.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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