[f. QUÆSTOR + -SHIP.] The office of quæstor.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 141/5. Ye Questorship, quæstura.

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1581.  Savile, Tacitus, Agricola (1622), 186. After his Questorship till he [Agricola] was created Tribune of the people.

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a. 1650.  Denham, Of Old Age, 94. I, five years after, at Tarentum wan The Quæstorship.

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1834.  Lytton, Pompeii, I. iv. Your petty thirst for fasces and quæstorships.

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1871.  Seeley, Livy, I. Introd. 90. Of all the great magistracies, the quaestorship was the lowest in dignity.

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  So † Quæstory (in 6 questorie). Obs. rare–1.

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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.

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