querent

¹

[ kweer-uhnt ]

noun

1. a person who asks a question or makes inquiries, especially of an astrologer, fortune-teller, etc.:

   Querents approach the I Ching with such questions as "What does the future hold for me?"

   The website is there for one purpose—to connect querents with respondents.

querent

²

[ kweer-uhnt ]

noun

1. Law Archaic. a plaintiff or complainant in a lawsuit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of querent¹

First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin quaerent-, stem of quaerēns, present participle of quaerere “to seek, ask”; quaere ( def )

Origin of querent²

First recorded in 1700–10; from Latin querent-, stem of querēns, present participle of querī “to complain”; querulous ( def )

Example Sentences

Dior’s spring 2021 haute couture collection debuted last January with a lush short film created by Matteo Garrone that opens with a tarot reading that transports its querent to a mysterious chateau populated by sumptuously dressed figures from the card deck — the Fool, the Empress, an anthropomorphized Sun and Moon — who act as signposts as she travels down one corridor and then another.

From New York Times

QUERENT.�One who asks a horary question.

From Project Gutenberg

It is said there never was a question propounded to this oracle—if done with a proper spirit, with a due and devout reverence, and a reliance on its wondrous efficacy—but the ring, by its brightness or its gloom, shadowed forth the good or evil destiny of the querent.

From Project Gutenberg

Now there was formerly an ancient superstition, that if, on the night before marriage, a taper were burned, made from the fat of a young sow, and anointed with the blood of the inquirer, after sundry diabolical and cabalistical rites at midnight, a spirit would appear, and pronounce the good or evil destiny of the querent.

From Project Gutenberg

The magicians now use a crystal sphere, or mineral pearl, as No. 3, for this purpose, which is inspected by a boy, or sometimes by the querent himself.

From Project Gutenberg