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quaere

American  
[kweer-ee] / ˈkwɪər i /

verb

  1. ask; inquire (used to introduce or suggest a question).


noun

  1. a query or question.

quaere British  
/ ˈkwɪərɪ /

noun

  1. a query or question

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

interjection

  1. ask or inquire: used esp to introduce a question

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

"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 Charles James Lever

Professor J. N. Grant points out to me the asyndeton following quaere ... sintne.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

How could you ever have penned such a quaere?

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

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 Thomas De Quincey

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