Obs. [Related to QUETHE v., as bequest (q.v.) to bequeath.] A bequest.
c. 1300. Havelok, 219. He made his quiste swithe wel.
c. 1400. Gamelyn, 64. I byseke yow … For Gamelynes love, that my queste stonde.
1418. E. E. Wills (1882), 35. After my dettis payde and my questes fulfilled.
1478. Croscombe Church-w. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.), 8. And bryngs in of the quest of Water Bigge xij d.
So † Questword. Obs. rare–1.
1792. Archaeologia, X. 197. The legacies or questword of the deceased supplied the rest.
