a. Obs. rare1. [f. as next + -AN.] Quisquilious. So Quisquiliary a.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 394. Miscreant quisquilian Scraps and Fragments.
1817. Blackw. Mag., I. 470. Those shallow and fidimplicitary coxcombs, who fill our too credulous ears with their quisquiliary deblaterations.