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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

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 E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe

"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

Very antithetical; but quaere as to the meaning?

From Rejected Addresses by James Smith

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

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

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