queryingn.
/ˈkwɪərɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkwɪriɪŋ/, /ˈkwɛriɪŋ/ Questioning, interrogation; the action of making or suggesting a query.With quot. 1668 cf. also query n.2 1b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun]
askingeOE
speeringa1100
frayninga1300
questionc1384
inquiringc1386
inquirance1412
inquirea1500
inquiry1565
sciscitation1618
questioninga1635
enquestiona1641
querying1652
popping1710
inquiration1789
1649 J. Hall Serious Epist. Prynne 3 Upon a third dispute with my selfe I found all these..could cause no Real affrights, as for your pertinacy in Answering, Responding, Rejoyning, Anti-quærying, Re-viewing, &c.]
1652 J. Collinges Cordial for Fainting-soul: Pt. 3 5 It..doth most properly signifie such thoughts as are quæryings and disputings and bandying thoughts of any thing with a mans own self.
1668 W. Penn Guide Mistaken i. 28 Thou must not Reader from my querying thus conclude, We do deny..Father, Word, and Spirit.
1682 Heraclitus Ridens 9 May 1/1 We were making an honest innocent Query or two... Ay, thinks he, are you for Querying again?
1727 Def. certain Queries relating to Trinity 2 It seems, your friend doth not like this method of Querying [sc. as in Bendal's Queries.].
1781 J. Sparrow et al. tr. J. Böhme Wks. IV. 103 Be not ashamed even to appear ridiculous, so that by querying you may but become wiser.
1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 784/2 It is not Virgil, but Miss Preston, for instance, who talks about ‘black immensities’, and ‘queryings infinite’.
1890 Harper's Mag. July 272/1 The queryings of philosophy.
1914 T. Hardy Satires of Circumstance 135 I see you as at that time Rising there, The self-same curious querying in your eyes and hair.
1996 D. F. Wallace Supposedly Fun Thing (1997) 266 In response to some dogged journalistic querying, Celebrity's PR firm's Press Liaison..had this explanation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
queryingadj.
/ˈkwɪərɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkwɪriɪŋ/, /ˈkwɛriɪŋ/ Relating to a query or queries; that asks or queries; interrogatory, questioning.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [adjective] > asking questions
inquiring1598
perquiring1598
questioning1600
querying1669
questionary1711
inquirenta1763
quizzing1915
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 107 One able physitian being asked... The querying person returned, that [etc.].
1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 140 The Querying Term in the 3d. Place.
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 286 A pair of baby eyes, peering upward with querying wonder.
1889 F. E. Willard Glimpses Fifty Yrs. iv. 173 We wonder at the graceful little creature, and fall into a dozen queries over it, for we are in a querying mood.
1952 G. R. Elliott Scourge & Minister 27 The stabbing final phrase of the previous speech, ‘my revenge’, is paralleled and anticlimaxed by the querying phrase ‘my uncle?’
2006 Welland (Ont.) Tribune (Nexis) 27 Sept. c3 The winsome ending of sentences with the querying ‘what?’ adding regional flavour to each character.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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