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Questor, -our, n. Also: quaestor, -er. [e.m.E. and ME questor (1387), med. L. questor, L. quaestor. Cf. med. L. (F.) quaestor aerarii treasurer (of the University of Paris). Also in later Sc. use (1754), of the treasurer of St. Andrews University.] a. Repr. L. quaestor, an official in charge of public revenue and expenditure in ancient Rome. b. In the Universities of St. Andrews and of Glasgow, the collector and treasurer of the common funds (? as another name for the Iconomus). —a. 1533 Bell. Livy II 75/4.
Incontinent the questouris [L. quæstores] was commandit to sell his gudis, and confisk thame to public tresoure —b. 1555 St. A. Univ. Arts Fac. Acts (S.H.S. iii 55) 405.]
[Auditores computi communis Questoris seu Bursarii 1637 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 423.
Of the quantitie of money payed be the schollers of the quaestor befoir ther examinatiounis 1642 Ib. II 465.
Quaester 1655 Ib. 324. 1659 Ib. III 431.
That no moneyes be issued … for buying bookes to the publict library but by the questor only 1664 Comm. Univ. II (Glasg.) App. 262.
The acts of Faculty in page 101–102 of the parchment book, anent the Bibliothecary and Quaestor's accompts … to be carefully kept