Obs. rare. = QUEENITE (applied to partisans of Mary, Queen of Scots).
1563. Winȝet, Four Scoir Thre Quest., Wks. 1888, I. 59. Thai wold mok ws on lyke manere, and call ws Kingistis and Queneistis.
1584. Calderwood, in Wodrow Soc. Misc., I. 426. In their places entered … Queenists, such as employed their witts and force with his Mother against himself.
