"quæstion" meaning in English

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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "quæstionable"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1623, William Sclater, D.D., The Quæstion of Tythes Reuised: Arguments for the Moralitie of Tything, Enlarged, and Cleared. Obiections More Fully, and Distinctly Answered. Mr. Seldens Historie, So Farre as Mistakers Haue Made it Argumentatiue Against the Moralitie, Ouerly Viewed., main title (Iohn Legat)",
          "text": "The Quæstion of Tythes Reuised: Arguments for the Moralitie of Tything, Enlarged, and Cleared. Obiections More Fully, and Distinctly Answered. Mr. Seldens Historie, So Farre as Mistakers Haue Made it Argumentatiue Against the Moralitie, Ouerly Viewed."
        }
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        "Archaic spelling of question."
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    {
      "form": "quæstions",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "quæstioning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quæstioned",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "quæstioned",
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          "word": "quæstioner"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1649, anonymous, quoted in 1902, George Bate, A Short Narrative of the Late Troubles in England: First Written in Latin by an Anonymus, for the Information of Forreners, and Now Don Into English, for the Behoof and Pleasure of Our Countrey-men. 1649 (F.E. Robinson & Co.), page 19",
          "text": "[…] lenght to inveigh agaynst the power of the king to quæstion his right in the shipps (which before the kings continually […]"
        },
        {
          "text": "1671–1693, Thomas_Jolly Rev. Thomas Jolly, private notebook; printed in:"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Henry Fishwick, editor, The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly: A.D. 1671–1693. Extracts from the Church Books of Altham and Wymondhouses, 1649–1725. And an Account of the Jolly Family of Standish, Gorton, and Altham, page 44:",
          "text": "At the funerall of cousin Barlow’s^ɪ child I feared one of the publique preachers (as I somtimes heard some of them upon such occassions) I further found caus to quæstion whether many of them bee the ministers of christ and his gospell, they holding forth soe litle of christ or his gospell.",
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        "Archaic spelling of question."
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  "word": "quæstion"
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          "text": "The Quæstion of Tythes Reuised: Arguments for the Moralitie of Tything, Enlarged, and Cleared. Obiections More Fully, and Distinctly Answered. Mr. Seldens Historie, So Farre as Mistakers Haue Made it Argumentatiue Against the Moralitie, Ouerly Viewed."
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    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "quæstioned",
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    {
      "form": "quæstioned",
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          "ref": "1649, anonymous, quoted in 1902, George Bate, A Short Narrative of the Late Troubles in England: First Written in Latin by an Anonymus, for the Information of Forreners, and Now Don Into English, for the Behoof and Pleasure of Our Countrey-men. 1649 (F.E. Robinson & Co.), page 19",
          "text": "[…] lenght to inveigh agaynst the power of the king to quæstion his right in the shipps (which before the kings continually […]"
        },
        {
          "text": "1671–1693, Thomas_Jolly Rev. Thomas Jolly, private notebook; printed in:"
        },
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          "text": "At the funerall of cousin Barlow’s^ɪ child I feared one of the publique preachers (as I somtimes heard some of them upon such occassions) I further found caus to quæstion whether many of them bee the ministers of christ and his gospell, they holding forth soe litle of christ or his gospell.",
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