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 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
Livy tells us that he was a questor.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles
Farther Spain fell to the lot of C�sar as questor.
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew
I quitted the National Assembly, where a questor to succeed General N�grier, who was killed in June, was being nominated, and went to M. de Chateaubriand's house, No. 110, Rue du Bac.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor
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