[f. QUEST v.1 + -ER1.] One who quests, in senses of the vb.
a. 1500. Image Hypocr., iv. in Skelton’s Wks. (1843), II. 440. Redy regesters, Pardoners and questers.
1707. J. Stevens, trans. Quevedo’s Com. Wks. (1709), 208. The wicked Quester tuck’d up his … Robe.
1718. Rowe, trans. Lucan, IV. (R.). The quester … to the wood they loose, Who silently the tainted track pursues.
1875. Dowden, Shakspere, 10. It is the ascetic quester, Galahad … who beholds the mystical Grail.
