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▪ I. † quethe, n. Obs. rare.
Also 6 Sc. queith.
[f. the vb.]
Speech, address; sound, cry.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1150 At þe fyrst quethe of þe quest quaked þe wylde. 1513Douglas æneis v. ii. 102 Quairfor Enee begouth again renew His faderis hie saull queith.
▪ II. † quethe, v. Obs. (exc. in pa. tense quoth).
Forms: inf. 1 cweðan, (cwæðan, cwiðan, cuoeða, etc.), 2 cweþen, 2–3 queðen, 5 queth(yn, (qv-, qw-). pres. tense (1 sing.) 1 cweðe, (cweoðu, cueðo, etc.), 4 queþe, 4–5 queth(e, 5 qwethe, 6 queythe. pa. tense 1 cwæð, etc., 1–2 cwed, 1–3 cweð, 2 cwet, quað, 3 cwaþþ, qu(u)ad, queð, 4 quaþe, quath, (queþed, 5 ? qwithit): see also quoth. pa. pple. 1 cweden, 2 i-cweðe(n, 2–3 i-queðen, 3 i-cwede, i-queðe, queðen, 6 queythed.
[OE. cweðan (cwæð, cwǽdon, cweden) = OFris. quetha, queda, quan, OS. queđan (quađ, quath, quad; quâđun, quâdun), OHG. quedan, chweden (quad, quat; quâdun, quâtun: MHG. queden, keden), ON. kveða (kvað, kváðum, kveðinn: Da. kvæde, Sw. qväda to sing), Goth. qiþan (qaþ, qêþum, qiþan):—OTeut. *kweþan, kwaþ, kwæ̂đum, kweđono-.]
1. trans. To speak, say, tell, declare, call.
c825Vesp. Psalter ii. 7 Dryhten cwæð to me, ‘sunu min ðu earð’. Ibid. xli. 4 Ðonne bið cweden to me..‘hwer is god ðin’. 971Blickl. Hom. 183 Þa cwæþ Neron to Petre, ‘ᵹehyrstu, Petrus, hwæt Simon cwiþ’? c1175Lamb. Hom. 37 Do summe of þisse þinge þe ic wulle nu cweþen. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1496 Sel me ðo wunes, ðe queðen ben ðe firme sunes. a1300Cursor M. 22973 Mani man..Wat noght þis word i for-wit quath. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1224 Sertes, þys were our most profit, Wiþ loue & leue he queþe [v.r. quede] vs quyt. a1400–50Alexander 4325, I sall quethe þe forqui & quat is þ e cause.
b. intr. in phr. quick and quething: Alive and able to speak.
1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 131/2 A man and a woman whyche are yet quicke and quething. 1546Gardiner Declar. Joye 39 b, I meruayle where he had lerned that lesson being yet quicke and quethynge.
2. To promise. rare.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 64 God hem quuad ðor seli suriurn. Ibid. 2788 Nu am ic ligt to fren hem ðeðen And milche and hunige lond hem queðen.
3. To assign by will, to bequeath.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 6294 Hous, and rente, and ouþer þyng, Mow þey queþe at here endyng. c1330― Chron. (1810) 135 To temples in Acres he quath fiue þousand marke. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 321, I queþe me to þe trone of þat Iuge þat neuere haþ ende. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 4794 My body, I quethe also To the sepulkre, for dayes thre. 1463Bury Wills (Camden) 16 Item I geue and quethe to William Hussher iijs. iiijd. 1530Palsgr. 676/2 Hath he queythed you any thyng in his testament?
b. ? To bestow, deliver. rare—1.
c1400Destr. Troy 6973 To Qwintilion the quem he qwithit a dynt, Woundit hym wickidly.
Hence † ˈquething vbl. n., bequeathing; quething word, last farewell. Also † ˈquethe-word, a legacy, bequest.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 373 By beggynge, by queethyng [v.r. queþinge]..and oþer fals meenes [they] cryen evere after worldly godis. 1481in T. Gardner Hist. Dunwich (1754) 148 Of Cutberd Eyer, for the Queth Word of Tym Chawmbyr 40s. c1490Promp. Parv. 420/2 (MS. K) Qvethe worde..legatum. 1513Douglas æneis ix. viii. 62 Thi last regrait and quething wordis to say. 1532Churchw. Acc. Wigtoft, Lincs. in Nichols Illustr. Anc. Mann. (1797), Item, receyvyd of Margaret Brygg for y⊇ quethword of Robt Brygg hir husband 1/-.
▪ III. quethe
var. quede, bad. |