Querent

A querent (derived, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, from the Latin quærēns "seeking", the present participle of quærere "to seek, gain, ask") is "one who seeks".

For 'querent' as a participant in a property transaction, see Fine of lands.

Querent became used to denote "a person who questions an oracle" because it is usually when one has a problem that requires otherworldly advice that one would seek out the oracle in the first place. This oracle may simply be a divinatory technique, such as the I Ching, that is manipulated by the querents themselves without recourse to any other human agency. Alternatively it may involve another person, someone perhaps seen as a "fortune teller" – particularly a practitioner of tarot reading or other form of mediumship – from whom advice is sought.[1]


References
  1. Froud, Brian (2000). Faeries' Oracle. Simon and Schuster. p. 204. ISBN 9780743201117. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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