questor
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Guy Pearce brings total conviction to Leonard, making an everyman of this bewildered questor.
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2012
He is a Kill-joy," replied the questor, with a significant look; "but he is none of our own people, though one of the order, from the abbey at Liege.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
XLVI.—Caesar having received the letter about the eleventh hour of the day, immediately sends a messenger to the Bellovaci, to M. Crassus, questor there, whose winter-quarters were twenty-five miles distant from him.
From "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Caesar, Julius
LII.—Caesar appointed over each legion a lieutenant and a questor, that every one might have them as witnesses of his valour.
From "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Caesar, Julius
He graduated at the university of St Andrews in 1603, and in 1610 was appointed professor of rhetoric and philosophy and questor of the faculty of arts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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