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Definition of Quaere
1. Verb. (archaic) To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) A question or query. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quaere
1. a question [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quaere
Literary usage of Quaere
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Brief Lives": Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between by John Aubrey, Andrew Clark (1898)
"quaere Mr. Jones for a copie of Sir Thomas Morgan's epitaph. ... He lies interred
in St. Martin's church : quaere if his tombe is erected. Obiit about 1679. ..."
2. "Brief Lives": Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between by John Aubrey, Andrew Clark (1898)
"quaere Mr. Jones for a copie of Sir Thomas Morgan's epitaph. ... He lies interred
in St. Martin's church : quaere if his tombe is erected. Obiit about 1679. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Torts in Obligations Arising from Civil Wrongs in by Frederick Pollock, James Avery Webb (1894)
"quaere concerning balloons. It has been doubted whether it is a trespass to pass
over land without touching the soil, as one may in a balloon, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Torts in Obligations Arising from Civil Wrongs in by Frederick Pollock, James Avery Webb (1894)
"quaere concerning balloons. It has been doubted whether it is a trespass to pass
over land ... quaere concerning balloons. Vide Guille o. Swan, 19 Johns. ..."
5. Oxf. Hist. Soc by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"Sermones rosarii [quaere,_, 276, 876. Sermones rosarii cum Mari [quaere], 1520.
... Of the sege of the kid [quaere], 1028. This seems to be a ballad, ..."
6. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... lying in their Way; quaere, If the Use of such were permitted to this Colony,
what could be expected, but they would march off when they pleased? ..."
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