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单词 quary
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quaryn.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quārē.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < classical Latin quārē why, wherefore (see quare impedit n.), with remodelling or respelling of the ending (perhaps after words in -y suffix4). Compare later quaere n., query n.2It is unclear whether the following later quot. (which apparently contains snippets of news or gossip) shows the same word:1681 W. Longueville Let. 30 Aug. in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) II. 7 I have been at Putney all this day almost, and so want ye news of ye noone (if any bee)... Earle of Gerrard or Macclesfield was dismissed ye bed-chamber, but of ye Earle of Manch[ester] it is a quary as yett.
Obsolete. rare.
Probably: a note of uncertainty; a query.
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c1540 Image Ipocrysy ii., in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 427 With quibes and quaryes Of inventataries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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