querist
(ˈkwɪərɪst)
[f. L. quær-ĕre to ask + -ist: cf. querent, query.]
One who asks or inquires; a questioner, interrogator.
| 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 147 Those Querists who must haue a reason for every thing in Religion. 1713 Steele Englishm. No. 5. 31 This Querist thinks himself..very seasonable in the Questions. a 1774 Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) II. 2 Were we asked..what is air, we should refer the querist to his experience alone. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 92 A troublesome querist comes and asks, ‘What is the just and good?’ |