questantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

questant (plural questants)

1. (archaic) Somebody who undertakes a quest.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Not to wooe honour, but to wed it, when
     The brauest questant shrinkes: finde what you seeke,
     [T]hat fame may cry you loud: I say farewell.