ETYMOLOGY
formed on exquisititious (adj.), from Latin exquisit- participial stem of exquirere (to search out)
EXAMPLE
“… It is enough that the Priests and learned Men explain the difficult Passages of it to the People, and write Commentaries for the Use of the more curious and exquisitive. The Persians, on the contrary, think it no Disparagement to the Arabick, or Profanation of the Sense, to translate this cursed Book into their own Language; and Copies are frequent among them. …”
From: The Philosophical Transactions and Collections
to the End of the Year MDCC (1700)
By John Lowthorp, 1731
Chapter II, Chronology, History, Antiquities
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