quæstorial, a.
(kwiːˈstɔərɪəl)
[f. L. quæstōri-us + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to a quæstor or his position in the state.
| 1862 Merivale Rom. Emp. l. (1865) VI. 197 Narcissus had received the quaestorial ornaments as the reward of his services. 1868 Farrar Seekers i. v. (1875) 67 Men of consular and quaestorial parentage. |
So quæˈstorian a.
| a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 335 Consular, Prætorian, Questorian or Equestrian officers. 1879 Lewis & Short Latin Dict. 1503/1 Quaestōrĭus,..of or belonging to a quæstor, quæstorian. 1976 Classical Q. XXVI. 99 Under the Republic the calles of Italy were..a quaestorian provincia. Ibid. 106 At some point in the second century the occasional quaestorian provinciae of the calles and the aquae were devised. |