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quaestionista [CL quaestio+ista < -ιστής] 1 (acad.) term applied to undergraduate in his last term; b (in gl.). nullus ~a fit sophista Bacon XV 292; 1322 statutis ‥ quibus ‥ astricti fuerant ~e sub pena inhabilitatis ad ulteriorem gradum in universitate, ne ‥ facerent festa ‥ cum responderint ad questionem StatOx 126; 1347 ~e ‥ et quicumque alii gradum scholasticum assensuri in locis puplicis admittantur ut pecunia ‥ in ‥ cista ‥ reponatur Ib. 150.  b a questioniste, ~a, -e, hic Levins Manip. 147. 2 an habitual questioner (w. ref. to scholastic theologian, w. impl. of lack of respect for truth); b (transf., of devil). quam hujusmodi ~ae nihil aliud quam ludant quaestionibus Gardiner CC 334.  b cecidit genus humanum a statu innocencie temptacione diaboli qui fuit primus ~a scripturam falsificans Wycl. Ver. I 129.

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