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quarreln.1 Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French quarele. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman quarele, Anglo-Norman and Old French quarel, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French quarrel (Middle French, French carreau ) bolt for a crossbow (c1100), flat and either rectangular or square floor tile or paving-stone (1160), small pane of glass for use in windows (1318) < post-classical Latin quadrellus (also quarellus ) bolt for a crossbow (frequently from 12th cent. in British and continental sources), tile, paving-stone (13th cent. in British and continental sources) < classical Latin quadrum a square (see quadrate v.) + -ellus -el suffix2. Compare Old Occitan cairel , cariel (14th cent.), Spanish cuadrillo (c1250), both in sense ‘bolt for a crossbow’, Italian quadrello bolt for a crossbow, square stone (both 13th cent.: see quadrel n.).In α. forms probably after the French plural forms, Anglo-Norman and Old French quareus, Old French quarriaus (the modern French plural form is carreaux ). On the γ. forms see discussion at Q n. With sense 4 compare later quadrel n. Sense 5 is a transferred use of sense 1a; compare quot. 1807. 1. society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > crossbow bolt > [noun] a1250 (?a1200) (Titus) (1963) 8 Nis ho to muche cangun oðer to folhardi þat haldes hire heaued baldeli forð ut i þe opene kernel hwil mon wiþ quarreus [a1250 Nero quarreaus] utewið asailzes te castel. 1340 (1866) 71 Al hit ys ywent wel raþre þanne..quarel of arblaste. c1380 (1879) 3312 (MED) Þe quarels floȝe out þikke of arbelastes y-mad of tre. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. 720 (MED) Smyþes also þat koude forge wele..quarel hedis scharp and square grounde. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine 314 b/2 A sowne lyke as a quarel had be shotte out of Arbalaste or a crosse bowe. 1520 vii. f. 82/2 The arbalesters smote hym with a quarel. 1590 E. Spenser ii. xi. sig. Z3v Now had the Carle..His hands Discharged of his bow and deadly quar'le. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy xxi. xi. 400 Ordinance of quarell shot, brakes, and other artillerie. 1677 E. Coles (new ed.) Vire, a quarrel or Cross-bow arrow. 1750 T. Carte II. 463 The Genoese..let fly their quarrels when they imagined themselves to be within a proper distance. 1786 F. Grose 39 For the future, all the heads for arrows and quarrells should be well boiled or brased. 1819 W. Scott II. xiv. 281 The arblast was a cross-bow..and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it. 1846 W. Greener (new ed.) 4 It is said of the cross-bow, that a quarrel could be projected from them 200 yards. 1916 E. Pound 102 End the discussion, Richard goes out next day And gets a quarrel-bolt shot through his vizard. 1988 Winter 92/2 Known as Quarrels, these fearsome, cruxiform-headed devices, wreaked havoc among the armoured knights. the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > bird-bolt a1852 W. T. Spurdens (1858) III. 39 Quarrel, a kind of bird-bolt, with a lozenge-shaped head; now used only by rook-bolters for beating down rooks' nests. the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun] > material for hook c1450 in W. R. Dawson (1934) 296 (MED) Parties of the skynne..shall be sowed, so as it may dure, with a subtile quarell and sylk threde. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in (rev. ed.) sig. hiij For smalle fysshe ye shall make your hokes of the smalest quarell nedlys that ye can fynde of stele, & in this wyse. Ye shall put the quarell in a redde charkcole fyre [etc.]. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > pane society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > pane > in lattice window society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > having panes of glass > kind of pane 1458 in L. F. Salzman (1952) 112 Every windowe conteineth vj lights..Item, all the katurs, quarrelles, and oylements. 1507 in J. Gage 143 Setting vp of white Normandy glas, oon rowe of quarrells white. 1542 A. Borde viii. sig. E.iv Let your skynner cut both..the skynnes in smale peces tryangle wyse, lyke halfe a quarel of a glase wyndow. 1589 G. Puttenham ii. xi. 76 The Lozange is..a quadrangle reuerst, with his point vpward like to a quarrell of glasse. 1607 T. Walkington sig. K7v An other ridiculous foole..neuer..durst walk abroad lest the glazier should haue caught hold on him & haue vsed him for quarreles and paines. 1685 S. Sewall 10 July (1973) I. 70 The Window of Mothers Bed-Chamber next the Street hath many Quarrels broken in it. 1711 C. Lockyer vi. 164 Oyster-shells fixt Diamond-wise in wooden Frames, instead of Glass, which look something like our small, old fashion'd Quarrels. 1734 (at cited word) All the Sizes are cut to the same Angles, the Acute Angle being 77 Degrees 19 Min. in the Square Quarrels, and 67 Degrees 21 Minutes in the Long ones. 1820 W. Scott III. vii. 218 A quarrel-pane of glass in the turret window. 1867 W. F. Rock cxvii. 33 'A brock a quar'l o' glass. 1879 ix. 145/2 The colour..of the quarrels in the original window is a light bluish-green. 1947 6 15/2 Light filters through the quarrel panes of the giant double doors. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey 235/1 Quarrel, an ornamental pane of glass of the type set into leaded windows and doors in ordinary houses; named after its usual lozenge or diamond shape which was thought to resemble an arrow head. 2003 A. W. Baker 209 Steve..held up a broken piece of diamond shaped window glass known as quarrel glass. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > other types of tiles 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. xxxvi. xxv. 596 The manner of pauing with smal tiles or quarrels ingrauen [Fr. Touchant les pauez faitz de petites pierres taillees & gravees]. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden i. 511 The pauements..wrought checker wise with small square quarels. 1635 in M. W. Barley (1961) 279 Item Certejne bricke & quarrell. 1886 R. Holland II. 274 Quarrel,..(2) a square flooring tile. 1894 R. O. Heslop 557 Quarl, Quarel, a flag or tile,..made of burnt fire-clay. Under the term ‘brick’ are included sizes up to twelve inches long by six inches wide. Above this area it is called a quarl or tile. 1986 Mar. 13 Quarrel, ‘floor-tile’. Middle aged speaker,..1960s. 1994 A. Kellett 143/1 Quarrel, stone flag. society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > of other shape 1807 F. Douce I. 181. In English it [sc. the arrowhead] was called a quarrel, and hence the glasier's diamond and the pane of glass received their names of square and quarrel. 1882 (new ed.) 589/3 Quarrel,..an instrument with a head shaped like that of a cross-bow bolt; as..a kind of graver;..a stone-mason's chisel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quarreln.2Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French querel, querelle; Latin querēla, querella. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman querel, queril, Anglo-Norman and Middle French querele, querelle, French querelle accusation, legal charge, legal action (1155 in Old French), problem, topic under dispute (second half of the 12th cent.), complaint, grievance, lament (first half of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), (especially passionate) dispute, altercation, controversy (c1260), faction, party (in a dispute) (first half of the 14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman; this sense is apparently not paralleled in continental French until later (end of the 15th cent.)) and its etymon classical Latin querēla, also querella complaint, formal or legal complaint, grievance, dispute or argument < querī to complain (see querulous adj.) + -ēla , suffix forming nouns, and -ella -ella suffix respectively; compare -el suffix2. Compare Old Occitan querela , querelha (a1150; Occitan querèla ), Catalan querella (13th cent. as †querela ), Spanish querella (first half of the 12th cent.; also †querela ), Portuguese querela (beginning of the 13th cent.; also †querella ), Italian querela (end of the 13th cent. as querella ). Compare later quarrel v.The β. forms, which are not paralleled in French, show normal late Middle English lowering of e to a before r . They predominate from the late 15th cent. onwards, except in Older Scots. On the γ. forms see discussion at Q n. In sense 1 frequently in form querele, probably after classical Latin querēla or Anglo-Norman and Law French querele. the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > instance of society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > complaint in respect of civil claim society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit a1325 (2011) xxxviii. 100 Þat te iustises gon þoruout þe londe for te enqueren, heren ant terminen þe plaintes ant te quereles..of tressepas imade biþinne þis xxv ȝer ipassede. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) ii. 3322 (MED) Thes wommen..preiden for this lordes hele Which hath relessed the querele And hath his oghne will forsake. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius iii. pr. iii. 73 For whennes comen elles thise foreyne compleyntes or quereles of pledgynges [L. forenses querimoniae]. 1454 V. 258/2 In all maner Actions..suytes, quereles and demaundes. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine 219/2 They sayd wyth swete and deuout quarelles why she suffred her deuoute seruaunte to dye wythout confessyon. 1535 Acts xxv. A Ye Iewes..broughte vp many and greuous quarels agaynst Paul. 1583 Ld. Burghley sig. Biiv None of them haue bene sought hitherto to be impeached in any poynt or quarrel of treason. 1628 E. Coke 292 If a man release all Quereles..all actions reall and personall are released. 1641 (new ed.) f. 230v Qvarels..extendeth not onely to actions..but also to the causes of actions & suits. 1726 J. Ayliffe [189] Not in Causes of Appeal, but in Causes of first Instance and simple Querele only. 2. the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > motive the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > [noun] > a grudge the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > [noun] > hostility resulting from ground of complaint 1340 (1866) 83 (MED) Ine oþre quereles, huanne me mysnymþ, hou þet hit by uounde myd amendement, Ac errour ine batayle ne may naȝt by amended. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) viii. 837 (MED) Love hath mad him a querele Ayein hire youthe freissh and frele. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan i. xviii. 52 What theyre herte sayth of the quarell and what wylle they haue for to fyght. 1526 Coloss. iii. 13 Forgevynge one another (if eny man have a quarrell to a nother). c1540 (?a1400) 1763 To qwit claym all querels & be qweme fryndes. 1578 J. Rolland 69 Ane knicht yat..Was put to schame, wtout querrel or caus. 1603 R. Knolles 306 Although they be in number moe than you, yet are they in hope, quarrell, and strength, far inferior. 1612 W. Strachey Lawes in P. Force (1844) ii. 34 Of striking or fighting with an other man, hauing a quarrell vnto him, and not holding his or their hands when an officer or third party come between and cries, Holah. a1634 W. Austin (1635) 249 The Devill hath the same Quarrell to us Men, that hee had to Christ. 1655 T. Fuller ii. 135 Ethelred..with whom Dunstan had a Quarrel from his Cradle. 1725 B. Higgons 94 His Quarrel to Cromwell, was his having depos'd the Rump, and usurp'd the Power in a single Person. 1749 H. Fielding V. xv. vii. 245 All the Quarrel the Squire hath to me is for taking your Part. View more context for this quotation 1765 H. Brooke (Dublin ed.) I. iv. 100 I have no quarrel, I cried, to the high and mighty. 1776 J. Bentham Pref. p. xxxvii His quarrel with them is for having done any thing at all. 1820 C. Lamb 10 Jan. (1935) II. 268 I have no quarrel with you about præprandial avocations. 1847 E. C. Gaskell in 4 Sept. 150 He told me then, he had no quarrel against me. 1876 H. James iv. 121 Our only quarrel with them is that they make the old papering and the engravings look dreadfully shabby. 1917 E. R. Burroughs xii. 119 I have no quarrel with Tars Tarkas. 1982 M. Z. Bradley Prol. p. ix I have no quarrel with the Christ, only with his priests who call the Great Goddess a demon. 2006 (Nexis) 8 Oct. I would not say any of those is illegitimate. The only quarrel I would have is if somebody would say this is the only way you can look at it. society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > side or cause 1340 (1866) 142 Þer treteþ he of his greate quereles: hueruore alle oþre niedes him þingþ trufles. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) Prol. 750 That he wol take the querele Of holy cherche in his defence. c1435 J. Lydgate St. George (Bodl.) in (1910–11) 43 16 (MED) He..þoghte he wolde be hir champion..in hir querel his body to iuparte. 1456 in (1855) III. 99 For his gud lordschyp done to me,..and for the expenses that he has made upon me, and in my querell. a1500 (a1450) (Trin. Cambr.) 3536 Off all this land I geve vppe my quarell. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives i. x. sig. i.iij Unto whom al ye wydowes matter shalbe more credible whom they se ouer shamfast to defende her owne quarell. 1578 J. Rolland 293 Gif ȝour querrell be richt. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. ii. 233 Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his Quarrell iust. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil 131 When their Sov'raigns Quarrel calls 'em out, His Foes to mortal Combat they defy. View more context for this quotation 1755 E. Young (ed. 2) 124 The..heart commands the..head, to fight its unjust quarrel, and say it is its own. 1808 W. Scott Life Dryden in I. 205 Were a nobleman to have recourse to hired bravoes to avenge his personal quarrel against any one. 1892 R. L. Stevenson xii. 313 In our own quarrel we can see nothing truly. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) v. 2877 (MED) Ther mai no trewe querele arise In thilke queste. ?c1430 (?1383) J. Wyclif (1871) III. 323 (MED) Alle mysdoeris..meyntenen a fals quarele aȝenst God and his seyntis. c1485 ( G. Hay (2005) 67 Oft tymes..he yat has gude rycht, tynis the felde, and the wrang querele wynnis. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. (1882–7) xlix. 164 By a iust quarell ye may go and make warre vpon hym. a1585 R. Maitland iv. 47 Men of law..Tak na euill querrellis be the end. 1590 T. Heneage in H. Ellis (1843) (Camden) 48 Her Highness dowteth that yt may breed discredyt to dyvers of great quarrell. 1639 T. Fuller i. ix. 14 Though umbrages and light jealousies..be too narrow to build a fair quarrel on. 1651 T. Hobbes ii. xix. 97 Sufficient provision being taken, against all just quarrell. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer I. iii. 309 Perhaps their Sword some nobler Quarrel draws. 1797 5 Farewell..Till suffering virtue, or religion's cause, The slumbering sword in juster quarrel draws. a1806 H. K. White (1807) II. 117 Me higher quarrel calls, with loudest song. 1863 J. Ruskin (1880) II. 25 I would have the country go to war, with haste, in a good quarrel. 1914 E. A. B. Crowe Memorandum 31 July in (1926) XI. 229 The whole policy of the Entente can have no meaning if it does not signify that in a just quarrel England would stand by her friends. 1997 (Nexis) 9 Mar. 4 l Those who knew Morgan may have a just quarrel with Abella's interpretation of his hero's motives. the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [noun] > reason or ground 1476 J. Paston in (2004) I. 603 Then he shold be swer that I shold not be flyttyng and I had syche a qwarell to kepe me at home. c1485 ( G. Hay (2005) 173 The king of ffraunce has querale to mak were apon the king of vngary. 1545 R. Ascham To Gentlem. Eng. A fletcher hath euen as good a quarell to be angry with an archer. 1552 Pref. sig. A.v So sufficiently..set forth this enormitie of the Citezeins, as semed behouefull for the querele of charitie. 1566 E. Grindal Let. Sir W. Cecil in Lett. in (Parker Soc.) 289 All ministers, now to be deprived in this querele of rites. 1612 F. Bacon (new ed.) 27 So as a man may have a quarrell to marry when he will. 1633 Bp. J. Hall ii. 142 Judas of Galilee..upon the quarrell of the taxes, laid by Cesar..made an insurrection. 1664 W. Killigrew iv. 61 Ormas. I shall call my Servants, unless you now show The cause of this distracted fury? Near... Valeriana's my Quarrel; She throws neglects on me, and dotes on you. 3. the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > [noun] society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > a quarrel 1566 J. Knox II. 280 In Berwick, whair commonlie befoir thair used to be slauchter be ressone of quarrellis that used to aryse amongis soldartis. 1572 J. Higgins (rev. ed.) Quarell, controuersia, contentio, jurgium [etc.]. 1600 W. Shakespeare v. i. 238 I am th'vnhappy subiect of these quarrells . View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Winthrop 3 Uncas..offered by a single combatt betwixt themselves to end the quarrel. 1682 xxviii. 66 To this Ampedo consented, lest in the heat of Quarrel, the secrets of the Purse should be revealed. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu 12 Feb. (1965) I. 305 I was very uneasy till they were parted, fearing some quarrel might arise. 1769 W. Blackstone IV. xiv. 191 If upon a sudden quarrel two persons fight, and one of them kills the other, this is manslaughter. 1817 W. Scott I. x. 247 He will take care to avoid a quarrel..with any of the natives. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ III. xlii. 133 I have told him as plainly as I dare that I wish him to drop all public quarrel with you. 1876 J. B. Mozley x. 232 People rush into quarrels from simple violence and impetuosity of temper. a1925 H. T. Lane (1928) iii. 100 As a preliminary to group play there are nearly always quarrels, because no two children want to play the same game. 1956 W. S. Churchill II. v. v. 173 The quarrel was between men who were all Christians and all Protestants, but who were divided upon the method of Church government. 1968 G. Barker 510 Those friends with whom too often I sat down beside the barrel and drank the whole damned evening dry without a word of quarrel. 2005 31 May 43/1 A fight, a party, trouble at work, a quarrel with the best friend. society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrelsomeness 1605 F. Bacon i. sig. I1v All beasts..forgetting their severall appetites; some of pray, some of game, some of quarrell . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1622) ii. iii. 46 Hee'll be as full of quarrell and offence, As my young mistris dog. View more context for this quotation 1999 F. Cammuso & H. Seely in 27 Mar. a17/4 Come May, he will be as full of quarrel and offense As old Ripken's back. the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun] the mind > language > statement > objection > [noun] > an objection 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in 371 Here M.H. to mainteine his fond quarrel against the translation of the English Bible hath falsified S. Hier. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. 249 In the disease Tinesmus (which is an inordinat quarrell to the stool). 1655 Ld. Orrery IV. ii. vii. 697 It created a general Quarrell to Fortune. 1659 C. Noble 14 Here's a down right quarrel to the..management of State Affairs; the mis-actors herein he names to be some Lawyers. 1726 J. Swift II. iii. iv. 54 What Quarrel I had with the Dress and Looks of his Domesticks. 1756 J. Hawkesworth ii. i. 11 I have no Quarrel to the Name, but that 'tis e'en too good for you. Compounds1611 R. Cotgrave Sursemeur de noises, a make-bate, firebrand of contention, quarrell-breeder. 1870 Sept. 403 Race and temperament are not, of course, the only quarrel-breeders. a1910 W. V. Moody Masque of Judgment iii. in (1912) I. 357 Wassailers, fleshlings, quarrel-mongers, thieves Of pleasure. 1995 (Nexis) 18 May c1 [He] claims the Dutch saxophonist is a quarrelmonger, opportunist, non-conformist, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). quarreln.3 Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Latin quarelia ; quarrer n. Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin quarelia quarry (1198 in a Norman source; apparently a variant (with dissimilation) of quarreria : see quarrer n.), or a variant or alteration (with dissimilation or suffix substitution; compare -el suffix2) of quarrer n., perhaps influenced by quarrel n.1 (compare the sense ‘paving stone’ of the French etymon cited at that entry). Compare also post-classical Latin quarellus quarry (13th cent. in Scottish and Irish sources).Slightly earlier currency is apparently implied by place names:1337 in D. Macpherson et al. Rotuli Scotiae (1814) I. 492/1 In Quarelgate.1369 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis (1837) 169 Multura terrarum de Quarelwode.1385 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1847) II. 352 De terris de Achinsogill..cum Le Quarrell. society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > quarry > [noun] 1377 in J. T. Gilbert (1889) I. 131 (MED) [Vacant land called the] quarel pittes. 1412 in L. F. Salzman (1952) 487 (MED) The forsaide Richard sall gette..att the quarell, atte his awen coste, all the stuff of the stane. 1480 in (1908) 430 The seid Meire..for xx s. let bye a perche of the quarell at Allesley for ston ther to be digged. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil i. vii. 22 Wtheris..the huge pillaris greit Out of the querillis can to hew and beit. 1574–5 21 To Rowchlaw quarrall to speik for ane myll stane. 1639 (1876) I. 403 Thair is licence grantit to Sir Robert Dowglas to gett ane hundrethe kairtis of wall stones out of the townes quarrell. 1666 I. 21 Of timber pasters or pastareges, ferem Marshes en Mashes Mines Minerals Quarells. 1699 in A. W. C. Hallen (1894) 256 For lookeing the sklait quarrell. 1722 (1909) 156 The touns quarrell for winning of stones therintill. 1802 (1891) 55 That the Market for Sheep and Pigs shall be removed..to some place in the Quarrell. 1828 W. Carr (ed. 2) Quarrel, a quarry. 1899 Wharl, a stone quarry; a disused quarry. Seldom heard. 1974 P. Wright 199 Quarr(el), quarry. society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > material taken from quarry a1400 in C. T. Clay (1926) 126 (MED) [To hold..in..Skalwra..and all kinds of common..in] fysshing, foulyng..torfgravyng, qwarel. 1428 in W. Fraser (1888) II. 55 To wyn..turfe, pete, and hathir, quarale, and fyschyne..wythin the said landis. 1500 in G. Neilson & H. Paton (1918) II. 416 In the wynnyng of quarell and stane to the Kingis hienes within the flude merk. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece vii. ii. f. 85/1 He thirllyt thaym..to wyn mettellis, querrellis, and to mak tyld. 1615 in H. M. Paton (1957) I. 361 To Johne Wat maisone that tuke panis in letting us sie quhair the quarrell wes to be had. 1671 in Fountainhall's Decisions in M. P. Brown (1826) II. 535 To dig, win, work, and carry away coals, limestone, clay, and quarrell. 1688 J. Barnes 171 Many pieces of Artillery, from whence were discharged huge quarrels of Stone, and mighty Weights of Lead and Iron. Compoundssociety > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > quarrier > [noun] 1377 [see sense 1]. 1435 in O. T. Bruce (1841) 424 Waltyr has grauntit..his maisteris qwarele leif in the huch of Kynkell that is to say to brek stanys and away leid. 1465 in J. Raine (1837) p.ccxcix j quarell mell, j bochyng axs, j sclys. a1500 (a1460) (1897–1973) 19 (MED) Bery me in gudeboure at the quarell hede. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil viii. iv. 149 All kynd of wapynnis..Wyth branchis rent of treis, and quarrell stanis Of huge wecht. 1535 D. Lindsay 3061 I lent my gossop my mear..And he hir drounit into the querrell hollis. 1571 in W. Greenwell (1860) II. 351 John Heworthe of gatisheid..Quarelman. 1600 in J. D. Marwick (1876) I. 205 Parte of thair said commone landis..reservand querrell coill lymestane and mos. 1637 339 4 acres of land of Arnotshauch, with pece of hauch gress and quarrelheuch. 1698 in A. W. C. Hallen (1894) 229 Inventur of quarrell graith, a great quarrell mell..2 gavelocks [etc.]. 1794 2nd Ser. 6 183 A commin' up the Quarrel Howe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quarrelv.Inflections: Present participle quarrelling, (chiefly U.S.) quarreling; past tense and past participle quarrelled, (chiefly U.S.) quarreled; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quarrel n.2 Etymology: < quarrel n.2 (compare forms at that entry). In sense 4 after Middle French quereler to assert one's claim to (a right, property) (1568 in the passage translated in quot. 1579). Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French quereler, quereller, French quereller to bring a plaint, take legal action against (a person), to reproach, to criticize, to argue with (a person) (all late 12th cent. in Old French), to dispute (a thing) (late 16th cent.); also Old Occitan querelar, querelhar (c1150 used reflexively, late 13th cent. used intransitively), Catalan querellar (early 11th cent., originally used ditransitively), Spanish querellar (end of the 12th cent. used intransitively and reflexively, c1200 used reflexively, early 13th cent. used transitively), Portuguese querelar (13th cent., originally used reflexively), Italian querelare (1508), all in senses ‘to complain’ and ‘to take legal action’. 1. the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > protest or remonstrate [verb (intransitive)] c1391 J. Gower (Bodl. 294) vii. 3172* With that word the king quereleth, And seith, ‘Non is above me.’ 1604 J. Marston iii. ii. sig. Iv In night all creatures sleepe, Onely the Malecontent, that gainst his fate, Repines and quarrels,..Whilst others beds are downe, his pillowes stone. 1671 J. Milton 60 I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation. View more context for this quotation 1752 J. Gill (ed. 2) iv. 81 I cannot see why any should quarrel with our translation. 1813 J. Austen I. xiii. 145 This gallantry was not much to the taste of some of his hearers, but Mrs. Bennet..quarrelled with no compliments. View more context for this quotation 1894 H. Drummond 265 We cannot quarrel with the principle in..Nature which condemns to death the worst. 1916 H. James in R. Brooke Pref. p. xiii I speak..not of Byron's volume, his flood and his fortune, but of his really having quarrelled with the temper and the accent of his age. 1967 R. Ellmann Ez & Old Billyum in iv. 68 He quarreled with the rhythms of its free verse as ‘devil's metres’. 2000 3 Apr. 56/2 Who can quarrel with a performance so vibrant with venal roguery and sheepish love? ?1551 Sessions against Gardiner in J. Foxe (1563) 865/1 To thintent to appeale, and..to querell vnder the..moste effectuall way. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria ii. vi. f. 74v For all this, were not the enemies satisfyed: querelinge [L. arguunt] that this thynge was doone by sum slyght. 1696 in J. D. Marwick (1880) IV. 216 Never to quarrell, impugne, contravert or come in the contrair. the mind > language > statement > objection > object [verb (intransitive)] 1570 in T. Norton & T. Sackville Printer to Rdr. sig. Aij She shall be..quarrelled at by envious persons. 1585 W. Lambard in W. Camden (1691) 29 This is all that I can quarrel at; and yet have I pried so far as I could. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 270 I loue the sport well, but I shall as soone quarrell at it, as any man in England. View more context for this quotation a1662 P. Heylyn (1668) 142 Which Clause..was now quarrel'd at by the Puritan Faction. 1719 M. Shelton (ed. 2) v. 319 The Power that makes them..is exercis'd also by the Pope, altho' some Lawyers of the Empire that are not Pontificious, quarrel at him for it. 1791 ‘P. Pindar’ xv. 533 I shall not quarrel at a joke on Kings. 1830 M. W. Shelley III. xix. 304 We have no right to draw these poor men into peril, and then to quarrel at the precaution they take for their safeties. 1840 F. M. Trollope xxxii. 377 And shall we any of us quarrel at the steps..which have led from that nonsensical beginning, to an end that has made us all so very happy? 2. the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > quarrel or fall at variance [verb (intransitive)] society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] 1530 J. Palsgrave 676/2 I quarell with one, I pycke a mater to hym to fall out with hym. 1597 R. Hooker v. lxxiv. 217 Those [heretiques] which doe nothing else but quarrell. 1609 I. Gen. i. xxvi And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. i. 32 in II Why, who would ha' thought any body would ha' quarrell'd so earely? 1677 T. D'Urfey v. 57 He that you quarrel'd with about your Crack there. 1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius iii. 41 Quarrel for your Mince-meat, and refuse the Lullaby. 1766 G. G. Beekman Let. 16 May in (1956) I. 500 It would not do for me to Quarll with him about it. 1819 W. Scott III. xiv. 365 The people of England are a fierce race, quarrelling ever with their neighbours or among themselves. 1868 M. Reid xxviii. 133 Ere long they [sc. wolves] could be seen skulking through the enclosure and quarrelling over the corpses. 1891 ‘Q’ 106 After six years of wedlock they quarrelled one day, about nothing at all. 1939 G. B. Shaw 24 She has put us to shame for quarrelling over a matter of which we know nothing. 1966 J. Fowles x. 61 This was the villa of the collaborationist he had quarrelled with. 1982 M. Z. Bradley iv. xiii. 825 A whole pack of dogs, perhaps quarrelling over their food after a hungry night. 1991 B. Okri (1992) v. iv. 341 He told Dad and Mum to be kinder to me, to not shout, not beat, not restrict me, to not quarrel amongst themselves. 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau 75 He [sc. Aconyt] stirreth and quarrelleth as if he mette with an other poyson in the intrailes of the man. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. i. 45 Some defect in her Did quarrell with the noblest grace she ow'd. View more context for this quotation 1748 S. Richardson III. xxxii. 171 Sleep and I have quarrell'd; and altho' I court it, it will not be friends. 1830 J. G. Strutt (rev. ed.) 82 It [sc. the Chesnut] quarrels with no soil assigned to it. 1887 R. Jefferies iii If there were two courses, then bread between to prepare the palate, and to prevent the sweets from quarrelling with the acids. 1920 E. Sitwell 85 Where on the tables, chattering-white, the sharp drinks quarrel with the light. 1973 E. David in 25 58/2 Many vegetables are very sweet..they quarrel badly with the claret chosen for the lamb. 2005 (Nexis) 29 Sept. 8 Avoid cooking tomatoes..because tomato sauces quarrel with white wines. 1795 J. Wolcot in (1812) I. 192 What mortals Bubble call and Squeak When midst the Frying-pan in accents savage, The Beef so surly quarrels with the Cabbage. 1922 J. Joyce ii. vii. [Aeolus] 119 Note the meanderings of some purling rill as it babbles on its way, fanned by gentlest zephyrs tho' quarrelling with the stony obstacles. the mind > language > statement > objection > object [verb (transitive)] > dispute or call in question 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. Luke xv. 133 The elder sonne..proudely quereled and reasoned the mattier with his father. 1582 in I. 121 Nather ar thair in thai pointis..sa greit diversities as are querrellit haifing respect to the diversitie of the daitis and the notaris yeiris and aige. 1609 C. Tourneur sig. Dv If malignant censure quarrels it. 1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker 4 The Lords Orders being not only quarrelled, but contemned by those who were to bail him. 1699 J. Collier (1730) 326 This fine Phrase puts me in mind of his quarrelling a Sentence of mine for want..of Syntax. 1745 T. Ruddiman 310 I hope you will not quarrel the Words, for they are all Virgil's. a1796 R. Burns (1968) I. 236 Some quarrel the presbyter gown, Some quarrel Episcopal graithing. 1887 D. Donaldson Suppl. Addenda He quarrelled every plan I proposed. He quarrelled my claim in the Court of Session. society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > claim > claim contentiously 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini v. 252 Ferdinand..had alwayes secretly quarelled [Fr. querelé; It. era stata querela tacita] that title as lawfully apperteining to the Crowne of Aragon. 1596 T. Danett Svpply viii, in tr. P. de Commynes vi. 263 The Emperors daughter was restored vnto him, and the countie of Artois together with all the townes he quarrelled. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > scold 1587 G. Young Let. 10 Jan. in R. S. Rait & A. I. Cameron (1927) v. 142 For he had querellit me twyse of befoir with mere inventions of his awin. 1616 B. Jonson Euery Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) ii. i. 118 in I I had quarrell'd My brother purposely. 1653 3 Counter-querying and quarrelling himselfe in subscribing them. 1688 S. Penton 52 Quarrelling the poor man for not coming sooner. 1700 (1909) 27 William Gladstanes came and quarrelled him for the badness of the shoes. 1728 R. Wodrow (1843) III. 363 He ought not to be quarrelled for his opinions. 1795 XVII. 32 Mr Howison..quarrelled his men for going farther than the Burn of the Ord. 1828 P. Buchan I. 8 Say on, my bonny boy, Ye'se nae be quarrell'd by me. 1897 S. R. Crockett xiii. 140 It was my fault..I quarrelled her, I angered her. 1925 C. P. Slater 152 The teachers got out of the cart and quarrelled them. 1952 B. Holman xiii There the boys and girls used to play at all sorts of games, to be always quarrelled by Fred. society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel with [verb (transitive)] > achieve by quarrelling 1612 B. Jonson iv. vii. sig. K4 You must quarrell him out o' the house. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller iii. 2 Many English Bishops..fearing by degrees they should all be quarrelled out of their places..fled into Scotland. 1655 T. Fuller (1840) 159 How easy was it for covetousness, in those ticklish times, to quarrel the College lands into superstition? 1678 167 There are many..that quarrel themselves carnally to hell. 1714 in R. Finlayson (1923) 21 The said Pat Spink quarrelled the said William Wallace to fight him. 1716 R. Wodrow (1843) II. 142 After drinking a little with him, began to quarrel him to give an account of himself. Phrasessociety > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > vacate an office or position > resign > for insufficient reason 1738 J. Swift 17 I won't quarrel with my Bread and Butter for all that: I know when I'm well. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton vii, in I. 115 You will then perceive that she was in the extremely inconvenient predicament of having quarrelled, not indeed with her bread and cheese, but certainly with her chicken and tart. 1939 A. Christie xii. 128 One musn't quarrel with one's bread and butter. Derivatives the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > [adjective] 1642 in A. Peterkin (1820) iii. 14 Quhilk gift is not confirmed..and so his right is most quarrallable. 1673 in Fountainhall's Decisions in M. P. Brown (1826) III. 14 The said act of Parliament appoints these deeds to be quarrellable. 1686 G. Mackenzie 254 The Lords declar'd that the Justice-court being a Supream Court, their Acts and Sentences were not quarrellable before the Session. ?1706 Earl of Sutherland 4 That Act indeed does introduce a Prescription, but quarrelable within 13 years. 1762 J. Stewart (ed. 2) 107 The Disposition..is evidently quarrellable by the Heir. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1a1250n.2a1325 n.31377v.c1391 |
