quaere
Americanverb
noun
noun
interjection
Etymology
Origin of quaere
1525–35; < Latin, 2nd person singular imperative of quaerere to seek, ask
Example Sentences
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The interesting quaere you didn't consider is whether the strict-liability doctrine will ever be applied to services, i.e. doctors' malpractice, as well as to commodities.
From Time Magazine Archive
And, quaere, was not the population of Athens greater two centuries before Demetrius, in the days of Pericles?
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas
Professor J. N. Grant points out to me the asyndeton following quaere ... sintne.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
"I was on the roof," replied I, supposing the quaere bore allusion to the mode of my coming.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
A number of instances of Q for quaere are given by A. C.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)
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