a. and sb. [f. med.L. quēsīt-, L. quæsīt-, ppl. stem of quærĕre to seek + -ED1. Cf. QUÆSITUM.]

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  † 1.  adj. Sought for, asked about, etc. Obs. rare.

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1647.  Lilly, Chr. Astrol., vi. 49. Significator of the Querent or thing quesited.

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1674.  Jeake, Arith. (1696), 20. The remains are the Numbers quesited.

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  2.  sb. Astrol. The thing or person inquired about.

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1647.  Lilly, Chr. Astrol., xx. 123. The Quesited is he or she, or the thing sought and enquired after.

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1881.  Shorthouse, J. Inglesant, I. xv. 282. A very good argument that the querent should see the quesited speedily.

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  So † Quesititious a. = QUESITED a. Obs. rare. Quesitive a., interrogative. ‘Quesitive quantity, quantity expressed by an interrogative numeral’ (Cent. Dict., 1891).

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1674.  Jeake, Arith. (1696), 334. As in Extraction of Roots and Equations,… A … is called the Supposititious or Ques[it]itious Root.

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1690.  Leybourn, Curs. Math., 341. Multiplying the assumed Root b+c in the place of the Quesititious Root a.

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