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
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Very antithetical; but quaere as to the meaning?
From Rejected Addresses by Smith, James
It had been an excellent quaere to have posed the devil of Delphos, and must needs have forced him to some strange amphibology.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir
"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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