† queryn.¹

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin querī , -y suffix³.

Etymology: Apparently < classical Latin querī to complain (see querulous adj.) + -y suffix³.

Obsolete. rare.

Perhaps: a complaint.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > instance or act of lamenting

moan?c1225

mean?c1250

bimena1325

lamentation1382

queryc1400

pinec1440

tragedy1536

lamentc1592

complaint?1606

conclamation1627

quiritation1634

throb1635

pathetic1667

dismals1774

jeremiad1780

complain1820

tangi1836

Jobism1855

wail1867

rune1922

vigil1956

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 803 As lombe..So closed he hys mouth fro vch query Quen Juez hym iugged in Jerusalem.

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queryn.²int.

Brit.

/ˈkwɪəri/, U.S.

/ˈkwɪri/,

/ˈkwɛri/

Forms:

α. 1600s quaeree, 1600s–1700s 1900s– quaery; Scottish pre-1700 quaeree, pre-1700 quaerie.

β. 1500s– query, 1600s querijs (plural), 1600s quiery, 1700s querie; Scottish pre-1700 queeree, pre-1700 queree, pre-1700 querries (plural), pre-1700 1700s– query.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: quaere n.

Etymology: Respelling of quaere n., after the spelling conventions of English (in forms in -y perhaps after words in -y suffix⁴). Compare earlier quary n.Query and quaere remained homophones until the 20th cent., and still are for some speakers.

A. n.²

a. A question, esp. one expressing some doubt or objection; = quaere n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > act or instance of

askOE

askingOE

questionc1350

demandc1386

inquestc1400

interrogationc1405

inquisitionc1440

questioninga1450

inquirea1500

manda1500

terogatores1511

interrogatory1533

inquiry1548

interrogator1561

interrogativea1586

quaere1589

intergatory1590

A1591

Q1591

query1610

interrogate1633

starter1673

querical1699

speer1788

qy.1819

Q1902

α.

1610 J. Robinson Justif. Separation from Church of Eng. 29 He propounds sundry doubtes and quaeries of his own, which he leaves vnsatisfyed.

a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 63 He that is guilty of no quaery here, Out-lasts his epitaph.

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 218 A great many quæries and difficulties might be proposed relating to the millennium.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 99 What News is the quæry.

1798 S. Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. Staffs. p. vii These MSS. were, for many years, supposed to be lost or destroyed, till my proposals and quæries, in the Gentleman's Magazine..brought them to light again.

1928 Virginia Law Rev. 15 67 Bearing in mind the holding of the instant case, and the quaeries above—Quo Vadimus?

β. 1620 J. Rogers Disc. Christian Watchfulnesse 93 Wee make Queries: and put cases, and beate our braines to deceiue our selues against the day of the Lord.a1643 Sir R. Blake in P. Darcy Arg. of 1641 in Camden Misc. (1992) XXXI. 237 I am commanded by the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses now assembled in Parliament to present unto your Lordships certain queries, that by vote were ordered to be entered among the Acts and Ordinances of that House.1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 25 We are now enabled to give answers to some bold Queries and Objections of Atheists.1719 Boston Newsletter 19–26 Jan. 1/2 The Crimes alledged is, that I..put a Misconstruction upon two Laws, in the third, that I put a query to the Attorney General, whether by a Law for Levying your pay.1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 270 It may..admit of a query, Whether the above expences are not too great for the crops to repay?1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor 133 We would gladly give an answer to such queries but we searched for the site..to little purpose.1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 15 [He] forced the embarrassed host to buy, By query close, direct reply.1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 43 She had prepared herself..to suppress all..queries which her son might resent.1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 209 ‘Where are you lunching?’ Something wonderfully uplifting and reassuring in that query and the sight of so many people like themselves voicing it!1937 Life 26 July 23/1 No red flags were in evidence, but the investigators did see ‘communists’ give a Fascist salute in response to a speaker's query.2003 Muscle & Fitness Jan. 30/1 ‘Hey, whadaya bench?’ It's the query that all serious iron-pumpers must respond to.

b. In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): an item in a formal list of questions issued for the guidance of Friends. Now frequently in Advices and Queries (see advice n. 2b(b)).Apparently used originally of an item in a list of hostile questions directed to the Society of Friends.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > council > Quaker > [noun] > questions issued for guidance > item

query1654

1654 E. Burrough & F. Howgil (title) Answers to severall queries put forth to the despised people called Quakers.

1701 G. Keith Answer to 17 Queries Q. Meeting Quakers at Oxf. 3 Those seventeen Queries ye sent me being only Queries, contain little or nothing Affirmatively or Negatively, by way of position.

1768 in Extracts Minutes Yearly Meeting Friends, London (1783) 269 This meeting directs, that the 11th query remain as it now stands.

1797 Encycl. 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.

1898 Friends' 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.

1921 R. M. Jones Later Periods 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.

1921 R. M. Jones Later Periods Quakerism I. iv. 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.

1928 Advices & Queries (Society of Friends) 5 The Queries being directed in recent years to arouse the thought and conscience..rather than to obtain specific information.

1954 H. Loukes Friends face Reality viii. 107 A system of ‘Advices and Queries’, moral and spiritual reflections couched in the form most calculated to set the individual searching his own heart.

2000 M. B. Weddle Walking in Way of Peace 255 (notes) ‘Queries’ were devised as well to promote both collective and individual consideration of how closely their lives expressed the wisdom contained in the advices. Advices and queries are still regularly introduced in rotation at Quaker meetings.

2. A question mark (?), used in writing to indicate a degree of doubt about the accuracy or validity of a following (occasionally, a preceding) word or statement. Also used in speech to express a written question mark of this kind. Cf. qy. int.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > question mark

interrogation1551

point (mark, note) of interrogation1598

note of interrogation1706

query1836

question mark1862

question-stop1862

punctus interrogativus1952

1709 Dial. between Member of Parl. & Commander of Ship 9 M What is the Meaning of the Letter Q, upon the Navy Books? C It signifies a Query, which is put upon their Names that are put sick ashoar.]

1836 in B. H. Smart Walker Remodelled 505/2 Query, to examine by question; to mark with a query; to doubt of.

1852 Southern Lit. Messenger 52 757/2 We marked the epigram with a ‘query’ at the time of reading it, and have since discovered its origin.

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) 594/3 Query, the mark or sign of interrogation (?), used to indicate that the sentence preceding it is a question; used also to express a doubt.

1898 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 2 The examiners..marked my paper ‘gamma-minus-query’.

1920 Times 14 June 11/4 Some one..has climbed onto the School Memorial Hall and chalked a big query mark (?) on one of the pinnacles.

1942 Jrnl. Royal Naval Med. Service 28 21 Admitted with a diagnosis of ‘query’ septicæmia.

1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 61 ‘You reminded me of someone I once knew...’ (Query her sister?)

1967 G. 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.

a1996 P. Godwin Mukiwa (1997) xii. 235 I kept a rudimentary diary in my little green police notebook... On the third night I noted that a snake ‘query, boomslang’ had slithered across my legs that night.

B. int.

Introducing a question, esp. with whether. Cf. quaere int.Often expressed by the abbreviation qy (qy. int.), also qr., qu., or by a question mark.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > introducing a question [verb (impersonal)]

quaere?1530

query1653

qu.1657

qy.1819

1653 J. Rogers Ohel or Beth-Shemesh i. xiii. 176 Query, Whether a Member cast out of a Church-society, comes not under secular Cognizance for punishment.

1689 Full Answer Depos. Birth Pr. Wales 7 Query, Whether she did not use to provide a Wet-Nurse, at her other Deliveries.

1732 J. Swift Corr. (1766) II. 690 That..the subscription be..paid into the hands of (query, Mr. Thorn,..a very proper person?).

1743 E. Hoyle Treat. Back-gammon vi. 37 Query, Whether the Probability is for his gammoning me, or not?

1821 Times 4 Dec. 3/1 Query, whether a ‘Peep’ into a certain prison would not tend to diminish the rates of the County of Lancaster?

1888 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 5 185/2 It was afterwards repurchased by that monarch (but query if purchase money was ever paid).

1945 Michigan Law Rev. 44 485 (note) Quaery: would better faith of the insured have been shown if he had notified the agent?

1953 Michigan Law Rev. 51 1222 (note) Query whether there can be a case of organizational picketing pur et simple?

2004 S. V. Bernard et al. Securities Filings iv. 149 Query whether the general practice of seeking shareholder selection or ratification of auditors will be reconsidered.

Compounds

query language n. Computing a language in which queries are passed to and information retrieved from a database or information system; cf. SQL n.

ΚΠ

1963 Science 18 July 248/3 The sharpness of the retrieval system's query language, and its depth of indexing,..will determine a level of effectiveness that is relatively invariant over changes in the form of the query.

1976 Accounting Rev. 51 71/2 It becomes necessary to describe the query language requirements before a structuring algorithm can be developed.

1996 Internet World May 10/1 The primary tool available for locating files was the Unix grep command, which required you to master an arcane query language.

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queryv.

Brit.

/ˈkwɪəri/, U.S.

/ˈkwɪri/,

/ˈkwɛri/

Forms: 1600s quaeree (Scottish), 1600s quaerid (past participle), 1600s quaery, 1600s querie, 1600s– query.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: query n.²

Etymology: < query n.² Compare earlier quaere v., queer v.¹

a. transitive. With interrogative clause or direct speech as object: to ask, enquire, put a question (whether, if, what, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > make inquiries [verb (intransitive)]

speerc888

fraynec900

askOE

inquirec1375

demand1382

fraista1400

enspeerc1440

hearken1523

question1584

interrogate1622

query1644

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > ask, enquire [verb (transitive)]

fraynea800

speerc888

askOE

fand?c1225

inquirec1290

asearch1382

queerc1390

assay1393

to take knowledge of1399

interrogate1600

quaere1627

query1644

1644 R. Williams Blovdy Tenent cii. 166 It may very well be quaeried how without such a Ministry two or three become a Church?

1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) v. xxii. 230 We shall not proceed to querie, what truth there is in Palmistrie.

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 15 Some query whether a living creature can subsist without the head.

1721 R. Bradley tr. G. A. Agricola Philos. Treat. Husbandry ii. vi. 284 It may be queried whether, this Work can be done then; I answer it may.

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry IV. i. xi. 97 It may be queried, what respectability in the capacity of legislators can such persons have..without the requisite information on state affairs..to make a figure in a public body?

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 16 ‘Shall we remove Mr. Butler?’, queried the assistant.

1849 J. G. Whittier Leaves from Margaret Smith's Jrnl. in Prose Wks. (1889) I. 64 On my querying whether any did find treasures hereabout, my aunt laughed.

1905 Smart Set Sept. 119/2 ‘Been here long?’ I queried.

1976 B. Freemantle November Man iii. 38 ‘The elections?’ queried Hollis.

1994 D. Healy Goat's Song xiv. 160 ‘You must have had an active life,’ queried the shopkeeper, ‘before you retired?’

b. intransitive. To ask a question or questions; to doubt.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt, be uncertain [verb (intransitive)]

tweonc897

to be at or in weeningc1275

doubtc1325

dreadc1400

vary1477

swither1535

stay1583

to have or make scruple of1600

demur1612

demurea1616

hesitate1623

Nicodemize1624

scruple1639

scrupulize1642

query1647

to make doubt1709

to have scruples1719

to have weres1768

mislippen1816

dubitate1837

1647 Last Will Sir Iohn Presbyter 3 They may be the better encouraged to Query against the Army, to raile against Independents, to roote out Monarchy.

1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 394 He queried, and reason'd thus with himself.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 335 Each prompt to query, answer, and debate.

1740 tr. Æsop Fables 58 When they come to querying and riddling upon it, with an If it be so and so, the Scandal of the Supposition is not to be borne.

1814 Ld. Byron Let. 15 Sept. (1830) I. 582 A passenger took up the book and queried as to the author.

1871 J. W. De Forest Overland xvii. 88 Coronado's eyes were filmy and incomprehensible; he was planning, querying, fearing, almost trembling.

1915 J. Conrad Victory i. i. 7 He proceeded to query in a slow, paternal tone.

1992 D. Seymour & T. Seymour America's Best Classrooms Pref. p. xii We snooped and pried, queried and coaxed, all in an effort to get a grassroots perspective on the workings of the educational system.

†c. transitive. To put (a matter) as a question. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > ask, enquire [verb (transitive)] > put as a question

question1481

interrogate1654

query1658

1658 Narr. Late Parl. 21 The like may be queried concerning the swordsmens capacity to sit.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 188 It's queried whether there be any Science in the sense of the Dogmatists.

1726 G. Berkeley Let. 12 Oct. in A. C. Fraser Life (1871) iv. 136 I do..entreat you to answer all that I have queried on that head.

1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 130 I..shall suspend what I have further to query 'till To-morrow.

2. transitive. To question (a person). Now chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > question, interrogate [verb (transitive)]

afraynec1380

speera1400

refraynea1450

searcha1450

questiona1470

interrogate1483

interrogue1484

demanda1513

pose1526

ferret1582

shrive1592

samen?1620

query1653

quiza1843

hackle1891

rag1908

1653 J. Rogers Ohel or Beth-Shemesh ii. iv. 291 Once in Dublin, a sister..was thus quaeried with, by the Churches appointment, and answering at first very fearfully, and uncertainly.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 97 The Don..assaults the first pittifull Scout..whom he should have quærid in this manner.

1690 J. Child Disc. Trade i. 13 So I have been assured by many antient Men whom I have queried particularly as to this matter.

1727 Suppl. 2nd Ed. of Case of John Simson 30 The professor had refused to satisfy the presbytery of Glasgow when queried by them anent this.

1861 Flag of our Union 27 Apr. 6/2 Button-holing Frank in the street, just after the first fall of snow, I queried him thus: ‘Whither this winter, my friend?’

1892 J. Murdoch From Austral. & Japan vi. 163 He..began to query her about the financial part of the business.

1943 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Nov. 10/7 He queries me concerning the passage.

1974 Spartanburg (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.

2004 Nat. Jrnl. 13 Mar. 768/1 The insiders were queried about whether Kerry would need to be competitive in at least a handful of states in the South.

a. transitive. To call (a thing) into question; to mark as doubtful, question the correctness of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt [verb (transitive)] > raise doubts

impugn1362

contrary1586

surmisea1609

question1622

query1727

1727 Poll 18 Aug. in R. Holoway Case of Mr. Richard Holoway (?1727) 24 The Four Votes above queried [i.e. marked with the letter Q], appear'd not to be good Votes.

1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 54/2 The returning officer..had queried 76 [votes].

1817 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. III. 156 Sir John..afterwards came to doubt it with a sed de hoc quære—query this!

1863 J. Scott Let. 26 July–2 Aug. in C. Darwin Corr. (1999) XI. 565 One of the packets of Red you will observe queried; this may chance to be from the White variety; having neglected to name when I gathered contents.

1961 L. Gribble Wantons die Hard xiii. 161 ‘I'm playing this by ear,’ he grunted once when the American queried the devious route he was following.

1974 C. Hampton Savages (1976) xiv. 70 But he said that was the Company's final decision And it wasn't for him to query it.

2005 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) Dec. 80/3 The McDonald's-isation of our culture..has led us to query our own authenticity.

b. transitive. To question, doubt (if, whether, etc.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt [verb (transitive)]

doubta1400

question1533

misdoubt?c1550

scrupulize1625

scruple1641

demur1667

suspect1698

query1815

1815 W. 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.

1847 G. B. Cheever Wanderings Pilgrim xii. 86 I queried much whether I should take a cloak.

a1898 M. A. Dodge tr. J. W. von Goethe in Chips, Fragments & Vestiges (1902) 69 I query if she knew Whether the sea were red or blue.

1959 J. M. S. Tompkins Art Rudyard Kipling i. 10 Untravelled critics questioned the authenticity of Dick's colouring and queried if his work was art.

1995 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 6th Ser. 5 1 They..queried whether Albany had ever been equated with the whole of what we know as Scotland.

Derivatives

ˈqueryist n. rare = querist n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > an enquirer, questioner

asker?c1225

questioner?a1425

querorc1450

speererc1480

inquirer?c1570

querist1633

querier1672

inquirist1748

queryist1863

1863 Reader 19 Dec. 729 A queryist in the American Publishers' Circular.

1996 K. Sparck Jones & J. R. Galliers Evaluating Nat. Lang. Processing Systems i. 16 (table) Role & category: queryist, habitual.

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n.¹c1400

n.²int.1610

v.1644

单词	query
释义	† queryn.¹ Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin querī , -y suffix³. Etymology: Apparently < classical Latin querī to complain (see querulous adj.) + -y suffix³. Obsolete. rare. Perhaps: a complaint. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > instance or act of lamenting moan?c1225 mean?c1250 bimena1325 lamentation1382 queryc1400 pinec1440 tragedy1536 lamentc1592 complaint?1606 conclamation1627 quiritation1634 throb1635 pathetic1667 dismals1774 jeremiad1780 complain1820 tangi1836 Jobism1855 wail1867 rune1922 vigil1956 c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 803 As lombe..So closed he hys mouth fro vch query Quen Juez hym iugged in Jerusalem. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021). queryn.²int. Brit. /ˈkwɪəri/, U.S. /ˈkwɪri/, /ˈkwɛri/ Forms: α. 1600s quaeree, 1600s–1700s 1900s– quaery; Scottish pre-1700 quaeree, pre-1700 quaerie. β. 1500s– query, 1600s querijs (plural), 1600s quiery, 1700s querie; Scottish pre-1700 queeree, pre-1700 queree, pre-1700 querries (plural), pre-1700 1700s– query. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: quaere n. Etymology: Respelling of quaere n., after the spelling conventions of English (in forms in -y perhaps after words in -y suffix⁴). Compare earlier quary n.Query and quaere remained homophones until the 20th cent., and still are for some speakers. A. n.² 1. a. A question, esp. one expressing some doubt or objection; = quaere n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > act or instance of askOE askingOE questionc1350 demandc1386 inquestc1400 interrogationc1405 inquisitionc1440 questioninga1450 inquirea1500 manda1500 terogatores1511 interrogatory1533 inquiry1548 interrogator1561 interrogativea1586 quaere1589 intergatory1590 A1591 Q1591 query1610 interrogate1633 starter1673 querical1699 speer1788 qy.1819 Q1902 α. 1610 J. Robinson Justif. Separation from Church of Eng. 29 He propounds sundry doubtes and quaeries of his own, which he leaves vnsatisfyed. a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 63 He that is guilty of no quaery here, Out-lasts his epitaph. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 218 A great many quæries and difficulties might be proposed relating to the millennium. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 99 What News is the quæry. 1798 S. Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. Staffs. p. vii These MSS. were, for many years, supposed to be lost or destroyed, till my proposals and quæries, in the Gentleman's Magazine..brought them to light again. 1928 Virginia Law Rev. 15 67 Bearing in mind the holding of the instant case, and the quaeries above—Quo Vadimus? β. 1620 J. Rogers Disc. Christian Watchfulnesse 93 Wee make Queries: and put cases, and beate our braines to deceiue our selues against the day of the Lord.a1643 Sir R. Blake in P. Darcy Arg. of 1641 in Camden Misc. (1992) XXXI. 237 I am commanded by the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses now assembled in Parliament to present unto your Lordships certain queries, that by vote were ordered to be entered among the Acts and Ordinances of that House.1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 25 We are now enabled to give answers to some bold Queries and Objections of Atheists.1719 Boston Newsletter 19–26 Jan. 1/2 The Crimes alledged is, that I..put a Misconstruction upon two Laws, in the third, that I put a query to the Attorney General, whether by a Law for Levying your pay.1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 270 It may..admit of a query, Whether the above expences are not too great for the crops to repay?1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor 133 We would gladly give an answer to such queries but we searched for the site..to little purpose.1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 15 [He] forced the embarrassed host to buy, By query close, direct reply.1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 43 She had prepared herself..to suppress all..queries which her son might resent.1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 209 ‘Where are you lunching?’ Something wonderfully uplifting and reassuring in that query and the sight of so many people like themselves voicing it!1937 Life 26 July 23/1 No red flags were in evidence, but the investigators did see ‘communists’ give a Fascist salute in response to a speaker's query.2003 Muscle & Fitness Jan. 30/1 ‘Hey, whadaya bench?’ It's the query that all serious iron-pumpers must respond to. b. In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): an item in a formal list of questions issued for the guidance of Friends. Now frequently in Advices and Queries (see advice n. 2b(b)).Apparently used originally of an item in a list of hostile questions directed to the Society of Friends. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > Quaker > [noun] > questions issued for guidance > item query1654 1654 E. Burrough & F. Howgil (title) Answers to severall queries put forth to the despised people called Quakers. 1701 G. Keith Answer to 17 Queries Q. Meeting Quakers at Oxf. 3 Those seventeen Queries ye sent me being only Queries, contain little or nothing Affirmatively or Negatively, by way of position. 1768 in Extracts Minutes Yearly Meeting Friends, London (1783) 269 This meeting directs, that the 11th query remain as it now stands. 1797 Encycl. 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. 1898 Friends' 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. 1921 R. M. Jones Later Periods 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. 1921 R. M. Jones Later Periods Quakerism I. iv. 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. 1928 Advices & Queries (Society of Friends) 5 The Queries being directed in recent years to arouse the thought and conscience..rather than to obtain specific information. 1954 H. Loukes Friends face Reality viii. 107 A system of ‘Advices and Queries’, moral and spiritual reflections couched in the form most calculated to set the individual searching his own heart. 2000 M. B. Weddle Walking in Way of Peace 255 (notes) ‘Queries’ were devised as well to promote both collective and individual consideration of how closely their lives expressed the wisdom contained in the advices. Advices and queries are still regularly introduced in rotation at Quaker meetings. 2. A question mark (?), used in writing to indicate a degree of doubt about the accuracy or validity of a following (occasionally, a preceding) word or statement. Also used in speech to express a written question mark of this kind. Cf. qy. int. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > question mark interrogation1551 point (mark, note) of interrogation1598 note of interrogation1706 query1836 question mark1862 question-stop1862 punctus interrogativus1952 1709 Dial. between Member of Parl. & Commander of Ship 9 M What is the Meaning of the Letter Q, upon the Navy Books? C It signifies a Query, which is put upon their Names that are put sick ashoar.] 1836 in B. H. Smart Walker Remodelled 505/2 Query, to examine by question; to mark with a query; to doubt of. 1852 Southern Lit. Messenger 52 757/2 We marked the epigram with a ‘query’ at the time of reading it, and have since discovered its origin. 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) 594/3 Query, the mark or sign of interrogation (?), used to indicate that the sentence preceding it is a question; used also to express a doubt. 1898 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 2 The examiners..marked my paper ‘gamma-minus-query’. 1920 Times 14 June 11/4 Some one..has climbed onto the School Memorial Hall and chalked a big query mark (?) on one of the pinnacles. 1942 Jrnl. Royal Naval Med. Service 28 21 Admitted with a diagnosis of ‘query’ septicæmia. 1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 61 ‘You reminded me of someone I once knew...’ (Query her sister?) 1967 G. 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. a1996 P. Godwin Mukiwa (1997) xii. 235 I kept a rudimentary diary in my little green police notebook... On the third night I noted that a snake ‘query, boomslang’ had slithered across my legs that night. B. int. Introducing a question, esp. with whether. Cf. quaere int.Often expressed by the abbreviation qy (qy. int.), also qr., qu., or by a question mark. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > introducing a question [verb (impersonal)] quaere?1530 query1653 qu.1657 qy.1819 1653 J. Rogers Ohel or Beth-Shemesh i. xiii. 176 Query, Whether a Member cast out of a Church-society, comes not under secular Cognizance for punishment. 1689 Full Answer Depos. Birth Pr. Wales 7 Query, Whether she did not use to provide a Wet-Nurse, at her other Deliveries. 1732 J. Swift Corr. (1766) II. 690 That..the subscription be..paid into the hands of (query, Mr. Thorn,..a very proper person?). 1743 E. Hoyle Treat. Back-gammon vi. 37 Query, Whether the Probability is for his gammoning me, or not? 1821 Times 4 Dec. 3/1 Query, whether a ‘Peep’ into a certain prison would not tend to diminish the rates of the County of Lancaster? 1888 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 5 185/2 It was afterwards repurchased by that monarch (but query if purchase money was ever paid). 1945 Michigan Law Rev. 44 485 (note) Quaery: would better faith of the insured have been shown if he had notified the agent? 1953 Michigan Law Rev. 51 1222 (note) Query whether there can be a case of organizational picketing pur et simple? 2004 S. V. Bernard et al. Securities Filings iv. 149 Query whether the general practice of seeking shareholder selection or ratification of auditors will be reconsidered. Compounds query language n. Computing a language in which queries are passed to and information retrieved from a database or information system; cf. SQL n. ΚΠ 1963 Science 18 July 248/3 The sharpness of the retrieval system's query language, and its depth of indexing,..will determine a level of effectiveness that is relatively invariant over changes in the form of the query. 1976 Accounting Rev. 51 71/2 It becomes necessary to describe the query language requirements before a structuring algorithm can be developed. 1996 Internet World May 10/1 The primary tool available for locating files was the Unix grep command, which required you to master an arcane query language. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). queryv. Brit. /ˈkwɪəri/, U.S. /ˈkwɪri/, /ˈkwɛri/ Forms: 1600s quaeree (Scottish), 1600s quaerid (past participle), 1600s quaery, 1600s querie, 1600s– query. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: query n.² Etymology: < query n.² Compare earlier quaere v., queer v.¹ 1. a. transitive. With interrogative clause or direct speech as object: to ask, enquire, put a question (whether, if, what, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > make inquiries [verb (intransitive)] speerc888 fraynec900 askOE inquirec1375 demand1382 fraista1400 enspeerc1440 hearken1523 question1584 interrogate1622 query1644 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > ask, enquire [verb (transitive)] fraynea800 speerc888 askOE fand?c1225 inquirec1290 asearch1382 queerc1390 assay1393 to take knowledge of1399 interrogate1600 quaere1627 query1644 1644 R. Williams Blovdy Tenent cii. 166 It may very well be quaeried how without such a Ministry two or three become a Church? 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) v. xxii. 230 We shall not proceed to querie, what truth there is in Palmistrie. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 15 Some query whether a living creature can subsist without the head. 1721 R. Bradley tr. G. A. Agricola Philos. Treat. Husbandry ii. vi. 284 It may be queried whether, this Work can be done then; I answer it may. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry IV. i. xi. 97 It may be queried, what respectability in the capacity of legislators can such persons have..without the requisite information on state affairs..to make a figure in a public body? 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 16 ‘Shall we remove Mr. Butler?’, queried the assistant. 1849 J. G. Whittier Leaves from Margaret Smith's Jrnl. in Prose Wks. (1889) I. 64 On my querying whether any did find treasures hereabout, my aunt laughed. 1905 Smart Set Sept. 119/2 ‘Been here long?’ I queried. 1976 B. Freemantle November Man iii. 38 ‘The elections?’ queried Hollis. 1994 D. Healy Goat's Song xiv. 160 ‘You must have had an active life,’ queried the shopkeeper, ‘before you retired?’ b. intransitive. To ask a question or questions; to doubt. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt, be uncertain [verb (intransitive)] tweonc897 to be at or in weeningc1275 doubtc1325 dreadc1400 vary1477 swither1535 stay1583 to have or make scruple of1600 demur1612 demurea1616 hesitate1623 Nicodemize1624 scruple1639 scrupulize1642 query1647 to make doubt1709 to have scruples1719 to have weres1768 mislippen1816 dubitate1837 1647 Last Will Sir Iohn Presbyter 3 They may be the better encouraged to Query against the Army, to raile against Independents, to roote out Monarchy. 1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 394 He queried, and reason'd thus with himself. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 335 Each prompt to query, answer, and debate. 1740 tr. Æsop Fables 58 When they come to querying and riddling upon it, with an If it be so and so, the Scandal of the Supposition is not to be borne. 1814 Ld. Byron Let. 15 Sept. (1830) I. 582 A passenger took up the book and queried as to the author. 1871 J. W. De Forest Overland xvii. 88 Coronado's eyes were filmy and incomprehensible; he was planning, querying, fearing, almost trembling. 1915 J. Conrad Victory i. i. 7 He proceeded to query in a slow, paternal tone. 1992 D. Seymour & T. Seymour America's Best Classrooms Pref. p. xii We snooped and pried, queried and coaxed, all in an effort to get a grassroots perspective on the workings of the educational system. †c. transitive. To put (a matter) as a question. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > ask, enquire [verb (transitive)] > put as a question question1481 interrogate1654 query1658 1658 Narr. Late Parl. 21 The like may be queried concerning the swordsmens capacity to sit. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 188 It's queried whether there be any Science in the sense of the Dogmatists. 1726 G. Berkeley Let. 12 Oct. in A. C. Fraser Life (1871) iv. 136 I do..entreat you to answer all that I have queried on that head. 1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 130 I..shall suspend what I have further to query 'till To-morrow. 2. transitive. To question (a person). Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > question, interrogate [verb (transitive)] afraynec1380 speera1400 refraynea1450 searcha1450 questiona1470 interrogate1483 interrogue1484 demanda1513 pose1526 ferret1582 shrive1592 samen?1620 query1653 quiza1843 hackle1891 rag1908 1653 J. Rogers Ohel or Beth-Shemesh ii. iv. 291 Once in Dublin, a sister..was thus quaeried with, by the Churches appointment, and answering at first very fearfully, and uncertainly. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 97 The Don..assaults the first pittifull Scout..whom he should have quærid in this manner. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade i. 13 So I have been assured by many antient Men whom I have queried particularly as to this matter. 1727 Suppl. 2nd Ed. of Case of John Simson 30 The professor had refused to satisfy the presbytery of Glasgow when queried by them anent this. 1861 Flag of our Union 27 Apr. 6/2 Button-holing Frank in the street, just after the first fall of snow, I queried him thus: ‘Whither this winter, my friend?’ 1892 J. Murdoch From Austral. & Japan vi. 163 He..began to query her about the financial part of the business. 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Nov. 10/7 He queries me concerning the passage. 1974 Spartanburg (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. 2004 Nat. Jrnl. 13 Mar. 768/1 The insiders were queried about whether Kerry would need to be competitive in at least a handful of states in the South. 3. a. transitive. To call (a thing) into question; to mark as doubtful, question the correctness of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt [verb (transitive)] > raise doubts impugn1362 contrary1586 surmisea1609 question1622 query1727 1727 Poll 18 Aug. in R. Holoway Case of Mr. Richard Holoway (?1727) 24 The Four Votes above queried [i.e. marked with the letter Q], appear'd not to be good Votes. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 54/2 The returning officer..had queried 76 [votes]. 1817 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. III. 156 Sir John..afterwards came to doubt it with a sed de hoc quære—query this! 1863 J. Scott Let. 26 July–2 Aug. in C. Darwin Corr. (1999) XI. 565 One of the packets of Red you will observe queried; this may chance to be from the White variety; having neglected to name when I gathered contents. 1961 L. Gribble Wantons die Hard xiii. 161 ‘I'm playing this by ear,’ he grunted once when the American queried the devious route he was following. 1974 C. Hampton Savages (1976) xiv. 70 But he said that was the Company's final decision And it wasn't for him to query it. 2005 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) Dec. 80/3 The McDonald's-isation of our culture..has led us to query our own authenticity. b. transitive. To question, doubt (if, whether, etc.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt [verb (transitive)] doubta1400 question1533 misdoubt?c1550 scrupulize1625 scruple1641 demur1667 suspect1698 query1815 1815 W. 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. 1847 G. B. Cheever Wanderings Pilgrim xii. 86 I queried much whether I should take a cloak. a1898 M. A. Dodge tr. J. W. von Goethe in Chips, Fragments & Vestiges (1902) 69 I query if she knew Whether the sea were red or blue. 1959 J. M. S. Tompkins Art Rudyard Kipling i. 10 Untravelled critics questioned the authenticity of Dick's colouring and queried if his work was art. 1995 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 6th Ser. 5 1 They..queried whether Albany had ever been equated with the whole of what we know as Scotland. Derivatives ˈqueryist n. rare = querist n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > an enquirer, questioner asker?c1225 questioner?a1425 querorc1450 speererc1480 inquirer?c1570 querist1633 querier1672 inquirist1748 queryist1863 1863 Reader 19 Dec. 729 A queryist in the American Publishers' Circular. 1996 K. Sparck Jones & J. R. Galliers Evaluating Nat. Lang. Processing Systems i. 16 (table) Role & category: queryist, habitual. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1400n.²int.1610v.1644
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queryn.²int.