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. 470/1. Those shallow and fidimplicitary coxcombs, who fill our too credulous ears with their quisquiliary deblaterations.