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† perˈquer, -ˈqueir, -ˈquire, adv. (a.) Sc. Obs.
Also 4 -quere, 6 -quier.
[a. F. par cœur (in OF. queur (11th c.), cuer (12–15th c.), cueur (14–15th c.), by heart, by memory, perfectly, exactly.]
By heart, by memory; hence, perfectly, accurately, exactly. to have perqueir: to ‘have by heart’, to know or remember perfectly.
1375Barbour Bruce i. 238 Than all perquer he suld it wit. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxx. (Theodera) 414, & leryt sa, for he was wyse, Al þat til a monk suld fere, In to schort tyme wele perquere. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xc. 32 Gif thow can nocht schaw furth thi synnes perqueir. 1577in Balfour Oppress. Orkn. & Shetl. (1859) 19 He [the Lawrightman]..pronuncit the decreitis perqueyre in default of scrybis. a1586Sir R. Maitland Poems (1830) 16 Nor of ane Princes the dewtie and the det, Quhilk I beleif thy heichnes hes per queir. a1610J. Sempill in Sempill Ballatis (1872) 247 The fearefull babe quho knawes his task perqueir. 1638Baillie Lett. (1775) I. 17 A number of othir passages I had perquire. 1722Ramsay Three Bonnets i. 102 Could newest aiths genteelly swear, And had a course o' flaws perquire.
b. loosely. Certainly, without doubt, forsooth, verily; rightly, uprightly.
a1550in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 312 For he that pacience can nocht leir, He sall displesance haif, perqueir. 1562A. Scott Poems i. 46 Lat perversit prelettis leif perqueir.
B. adj. Thoroughly versed, ‘perfect’; ready.
1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxx. 72 Rype of ingyne, with iudgement perqueir. c1600Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 1467 Thair neirest perquierest Is always to them baith. 1742R. Forbes Ajax's Sp. in Poems Buchan Dial. (1785) 2 At threeps I am na' sae perquire, Nor auld-farren as he. |