Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quizzed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Quiz \Quiz\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quizzed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Quizzing}.]
1. To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended
seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure
questions.

He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.
--Thackeray.

2. To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

3. To instruct in or by a quiz. See {Quiz}, n., 4. [U.S.]

{Quizzing glass}, a small eyeglass.


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