Word.ws English Dictionary

quære

quære is the archaic form of quaere.

Meaning of quaere

Verb

quaere (third-person singular simple present quaeres, present participle quaereing, simple past and past participle quaered)

  1. (otherwise archaic) 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?1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

See all 2 meanings of quaere

Forms of quære

Verb
third-person singular presentquæres
present participlequæreing
past participlequæred
pastquæred
Noun
pluralquæres

Questions about quære

What is quære the archaic form of?
Quære is the archaic form of quaere.

Words near quære in the dictionary

  1. quyght
  2. quylthulg
  3. quylthulgs
  4. quyrdaq
  5. Quzhou
  6. quære
  7. quæres
  8. quæries
  9. quæry
  10. quæsita
  11. quæstion

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quære (page history and authors); quaere (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “quære.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/qu%C3%A6re. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.