quæstorship
(ˈkwiːstəʃɪp)
[f. quæstor + -ship.]
The office of quæstor.
| 1570 Levins Manip. 141/5 Y⊇ Questorship, quæstura. 1581 Savile Tacitus, Agricola (1622) 186 After his Questorship till he [Agricola] was created Tribune of the people. c 1650 Denham Of Old Age 94, I, five years after, at Tarentum wan The Quæstorship. 1834 Lytton Pompeii i. iv, Your petty thirst for fasces and quæstorships. 1871 Seeley Livy i. Introd. 90 Of all the great magistracies, the quaestorship was the lowest in dignity. |
So † ˈquæstory (in 6 questorie). Obs. rare—1.
| 1533 Bellenden Livy iv. (1822) 382 The small pepill had sic victorie, that thay belevit the questorie nocht to be the end of this honoure. |