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quere2 (1310-11)

quere2 (1310-11)

 
  FEW:  quaerere *2/ii,1408a Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF: DMF: TLF: OED:  quaere int. and n.  / query n.  MED: DMLBS:  quaerere 1602b
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The Latin imperative of quarere, quaere, seems to have developed into the substantive query in English, with the earliest attestations of this dating from the mid sixteenth-century. These thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Anglo-Norman instances may be earlier examples of this development. However, the context remains ambiguous, and in both cases the word may also be interpreted as a straightforward imperative (‘enquire’) either in Latin or in Anglo-Norman (sub quere1); cf. queritur and quero.

s.

lawquery, matter to be enquired
( 1310-11 )  Quere: si le seignour puisse avower en la commune de pasture  YBB Ed II ix 191
( 1380 )  quere de le confession  Exchequer Chamber i 3

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See also:

quare1  quere2  queritur  quero 
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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