Quaere
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A question or query. archaic
"Had ten dozen of hornets stung him behind in so many places all at one time,—he could not have […] started half so much, as with one single quære of three words unseasonably popping in full upon him."
- 1 To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
"Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man be made to see: quaere, whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube?"
Example
More examples"Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man be made to see: quaere, whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube?"
Etymology
From Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”).
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