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