quaere

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Pronunciation

/ˈkwɪəɹi/

Definition of quaere

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.

“Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man be made to see: quaere, whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube?”
“Now, she cannot express her emotions fully: Quaere: will she feel them fully?”

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verb

To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.

“Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man be made to see: quaere, whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube?”
“Now, she cannot express her emotions fully: Quaere: will she feel them fully?”

noun

(archaic)A question or query.

“Had ten dozen of hornets stung him behind in so many places all at one time,—he could not have […] started half so much, as with one single quære of three words unseasonably popping in full upon him.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”).

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