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▪ I. query, n.1|ˈkwɪərɪ|
Also 7 queree, quæree, 7–8 quæry.
[Anglicizing of quere, quære.]
1. Introducing a question: = quære 1.
Now rarely written in full, being usually expressed by the abbreviation qy. (qr., qu.) or the sign ?.
1667Pepys Diary 23 Aug., Query, whether a glass-coach would have permitted us to have made the escape? 1732Swift Corr. (1766) II. 690 That..the subscription be..paid into the hands of (query, Mr. Thorn,..a very proper person?). 1763Hoyle Back-gammon 200 Query, Whether the Probability is for his gammoning me, or not? 1888N. & Q. 7th Ser. V. 185/2 It was afterwards repurchased by that monarch (but query if purchase money was ever paid).
2. a. A question: = quære 2.
α1645R. Symonds Diary (Camden) 270 The cowardly commissioners..put queries. Where shall wee have winter quarters? 1658J. Durham Exp. Revelation (1680) vii. 342 This is the scope of the Queree. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. (1735) 203 We are now enabled to give Answers to some bold Queries and Objections of Atheists. 1767A. Young Farmer's Lett. to People 270 It may..admit of a query, Whether the above expences are not too great for the crops to repay? 1813Scott Rokeby i. x, [He] forced the embarrass'd host to buy, By query close, direct reply. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 22 She had prepared herself..to suppress all..queries which her son might resent.
βa1635Corbet Poems (1807) 63 He that is guilty of no quaery here, Out-lasts his epitaph. 1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide iv. 96 My first quæree, is whether grace be an adjutory. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 218 A great many quæries and difficulties might be proposed relating to the millennium. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) II. 99 What News, is the Quæry.
b. spec. in the Society of Friends, an item in a formal list of questions issued for the guidance of Friends; now freq. in phr. Advices and Queries (see quot. 1954).
1654Burrough & Howgill (title) Answers to severall queries put forth to the despised people called Quakers. 1701G. Keith Answer to 17 Queries Quarterly Meeting Quakers, Oxford 3 Those seventeen Queries ye sent me being only Queries, contain little or nothing Affirmatively or Negatively, by way of position. 1768in Extracts Minutes Yearly Meeting Friends, London (1783) 269 This meeting directs, that the 11th query remain as it now stands. 1797Encycl. Brit. XV. 737/2 At the quarterly-meeting are produced written answers from the monthly-meetings, to certain queries respecting the conduct of their members, and the meeting's care over them. 1898Friends' Q. Examiner 483 For about a century it was uncertain whether the interrogations addressed to the meetings of Friends should be termed ‘questions’ or ‘queries’. The former term was chiefly employed up to 1762, but ‘queries’ has held the field since 1783. 1921R. M. Jones Later Periods of Quakerism I. iv. 134 At first the Queries were formal questions asked for the sake of securing information in reference to the number of members suffering under persecution. Ibid. 135 As fresh moral issues arose,..the list of Queries enlarged. They grew in number and in importance until they embodied almost all the essential aspects of the Quaker moral ideal, and they furnished a kind of silent confessional for each individual member, as well as a moral measuring rule to guide the Overseers in their work of looking after the flock. 1928Advices & Queries (Society of Friends) 5 The Queries being directed in recent years to arouse the thought and conscience..rather than to obtain specific information. 1954H. Loukes Friends face Reality viii. 107 Quakers have performed this process of moral illumination of each other, while at the same time guarding against the danger of setting up an external moral code, by a system of ‘Advices and Queries’, moral and spiritual reflections couched in the form most calculated to set the individual searching his own heart.
3. A mark of interrogation (?), used to indicate a doubt as to the correctness of the statement, phrase, letter, etc. to which it is appended or refers; the abbreviation qy. etc. used for the same purpose. Also written out as a quasi-adj. or -adv., preceding the word(s) to which it refers.
1836in Smart. 1882–in Ogilvie, etc. 1942Jrnl. R. Naval Med. Service XXVIII. 21 Admitted with a diagnosis of ‘query’ septicæmia. 1953R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 61 ‘You reminded me of someone I once knew...’ (Query her sister?) 1967G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway iii. 21 It would have had to be an unwary Hun that let me get near him with my pike—design Circa 1500; origin query Birmingham Small Arms Company. 1977J. McClure Sunday Hangman x. 109 ‘Murders..,’ snapped Colonel Muller. ‘Query murders,’ corrected Kramer, recognising an urgent need..to treat the situation as routinely as possible.
▪ II. † query, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
[App. f. L. querī to complain.]
? Complaint.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 802 As a schep to þe slaȝt þer lad was he, & as lombe..So closed he hys mouth fro vch query.
▪ III. query, v.|ˈkwɪərɪ|
Also 7 quæry.
[f. query n.1 Cf. quære v.]
1. a. trans. To put as a question. ? Obs.
1657Narr. late Parlt. in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 409 The like may be queried concerning the swordsmen's capacity to sit. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 188 It's queried whether there be any Science in the sense of the Dogmatists. 1726Berkeley Let. 12 Oct., in Fraser Life iv. (1871) 136, I do..entreat you to answer all that I have queried on that head. 1755B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sc. 130, I..shall suspend what I have further to query 'till To-morrow.
b. With interrogative clause or direct speech as obj.: To ask, inquire, put a question (whether, if, what, etc.).
1657S. Purchas Theat. Pol. Flying-Ins. 15 Some query whether a living creature can subsist without the head. 1658Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xxii. (ed. 3) 328 We shall not proceed to querie, What truth there is in Palmistrie. 1681E. Murphy State Ireland §40 The Deponent..queried if Captain Butler was come thither. 1756H. Walpole Lett. to Mann 17 Oct. (1846) III. 245 Should not one query whether he had not those proofs in his hands antecedent to the cabinet? 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xiii, ‘Shall we remove Mr. Butler?’, queried the assistant. 1866Whittier Marg. Smith's Jrnl. Pr. Wks. 1889 I. 64 On my querying whether any did find treasures hereabout, my aunt laughed. 1905Smart Set Sept. 119/2 ‘Been here long?’ I queried. 1976B. Freemantle November Man iii. 38 ‘The elections?’ queried Hollis.
c. absol. To ask a question or questions.
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 4 (1713) I. 23 Nay, if you be for that Sport, e'en Query by your self. 1720S. Parker Bibliotheca Biblica I. 394 He queried, and reason'd thus with himself. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 349 Each prompt to query, answer, and debate. 1814Byron Lara i. i note, A passenger queried as to the author.
2. To question, interrogate (a person). Now chiefly U.S.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes 97 The Don..assaults the first pittifull Scout..whom he should have quæried in this manner. 1690Child Disc. Trade (1698) 47 So I have been assured by many antient men whom I have queried particularly as to this matter. c1890A. Murdoch Yoshiwara Episode in Fr. Austr. to Japan (1892) 49 He..began to query her about the financial part of the business. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 30 Nov. 10/7 He queries me concerning the passage. 1952Time 14 Apr. 17/1 Before an issue of Time goes to press..a twin-bed position may be dummied, a stringer queried for a checking point. 1974Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 18 Apr. a6/2 College Students..who were queried at Iowa State University, have some curious ideas about what ‘academic freedom’ means. 1977Daily Times (Lagos) 11 Jan. 20/2 When these officers were queried, they felt unhappy.
3. a. To call (a thing) in question; to mark as doubtful.
1772Ann. Reg. 54/2 The returning officer..had queried 76 [votes]. 1839D'Israeli Curios. Lit. (1849) II. 224 Sir John..afterwards came to doubt it with a ‘sed de hoc quære’ query this! 1961[see ear n.1 5].
b. To question, doubt, if, etc.
1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 140, I very much query if two, and sometimes three of Sonini's Alpine pictures were not condensed into one by the author.
Hence ˈquerying vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈqueryingly adv.; ˈqueryist = querist.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 107 One able physitian being asked... The querying person returned, that [etc.]. 1706W. Jones Synop. Palmar. Matheseos 140 The Querying Term in the 3d. Place. 1863Reader 19 Dec. 729 A queryist in the American Publishers' Circular. 1865E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 286 A pair of baby eyes, peering upward with querying wonder. 1890Harper's Mag. July 272/1 The queryings of philosophy. 1890J. Middlemass Two False Moves I. xv. 226 He looked at her queryingly. |