"Quaere" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of rajahs in India are called Rajah Pouts, and as turkeys came from the East, quaere if they were not called Turkey-pouts, as an ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole
... poet, made a quaere, I remember, at the Royal Society, about 1666, whether Salisbury ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey
... the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which the sphere. 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?" To which the acute and judicious proposer answers, "Not. For, though he has obtained the experience of how a globe, how a cube affects his touch, ...
— An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I. - MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books I. and II. (of 4) • John Locke
... in quest of; on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic^; all searching. undetermined, untried, undecided; in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry; under discussion, under consideration, under investigation &c n.; sub judice [Lat.], moot, proposed; doubtful &c (uncertain) 475. Adv. quaere? [Lat.], what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr? [G.], what's in the wind?, what on earth?, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... round in the kiosk" and seeing "the casement (shubbak), which Alaeddin had purposely left defective, without completion," said to the Vizier, "Knowest thou the reason (or cause) of the lack of completion of this casement and its lattices?" (shearihi, or quaere, "[this] lattice," the copyist having probably omitted by mistake the diacritical points over the final ha). Then he asked Alaeddin, "What is the cause that the lattice of yonder kiosk (kushk) is not complete?" The defective part is soon after referred to, no less than four times, as ...
— Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp • John Payne |
