Middle English Dictionary Entry
conquestiǒunen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | conquestiǒunen v. Also conquestionen. |
| Etymology | Apparently from questiǒunen v. and con- pref.; perhaps influenced by L conquestio (F conquestion n.; = OED conquestion n.) -- though the latter derives from a different verb (conqueror) with a very different meaning ('lament'). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To raise the issue (whether something is the case), question, debate.
Associated quotations
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)141/17 : I haue curiously encerched in the discordes of the holy scriptures the defautes and punisshementes of oure forefadirs, and in grete dreede troubled and conquestioned [CQ(2): debatid] in myn owne thought of [read: if; CQ(2): whethir] this sorowfull affliccion shulde be in chastisinge as a fadirs rod, or ell in reigueur of the iuge for oure determinacion.