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queste (s.xiiex)

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queste (s.xiiex)

quest  
  FEW:  quaerere 2/ii,1409a Gdf:  queste 1 6,505c GdfC: TL: queste 8,74 DEAF:  queste  DMF:  quête  TLF:  quête 1  OED:  quest n.1  MED:  quest(e n.  DMLBS:  quaesta 2603a / quaestus 2604c

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1(act of) searching, pursuit
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Fraunceys [...] par sa priere Manga, e en primes ala quere De us en us la aumone, Kar cele queste tynt seyne e bone  3164
2lawinquest, judicial inquiry (usually by jury)
( 1260; MS: s.xivin )  il covent ke vus i mettez en une queste ou vus perdez vostre demande aremenant  112
( 1276 )  totes maneres de trespas, conteks, offenses fetz au rey e as autres, tochez en les questes nadgueres fetes par comaundement le rey  i 44
( 1305 )  A nostre seignur le roy et sun consail mustre l'abbé de Jeddeworth, qe la ou il avoit suy plé et Sire Richard Hastang, taun ke a la quest: la est il delayé de soun drayt encountre la lay d'Escoce  i 473
queste mongere
questemongere
estre en queste
lawto be subject to an inquest, judicial inquiry (usually by jury)
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Mes si vous quillez genz a festes, Priez ceuz que sunt en questes (var. (T: 1415-20) Genz ke sount sus enquestes) Pur lur malicez  362
mover queste
to ask a question
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Queste moveir vos voil de jugement: Se uns halz sires enveie son present, E cil quil porte le retient ou le vent, N'esgardez vos qu'il mefface forment?  721

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See also:

enqueste  questeier  quester  question  questionner  questour  requeste1 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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