Pl. quæsita. [L., neut. sing. of quæsīt-us, pa. pple. of quærĕre to seek: see QUESITED.] That which is sought for; an object of search; the answer to a problem.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. Introd. So as to proceed intirely from the Data to the Quæsita, from things known to such as are unknown.
1830. Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., II. vi. (1851), 176. A series of careful and exact measures in every different state of the datum and quæsitum.
1864. Bowen, Logic, viii. 229. In the Analytic order, the ‘Conclusion’ would be more properly called the Quæsitum.
