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Webster 1913 Edition
Queme
Queme
,Verb.
T.
& I.
[AS.
cwēman
, akin to cuman
to come. √23.] To please.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Queme
QUEME
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
queme
queme
See also: quemé
English
Verb
queme (third-person singular simple present quemes, present participle queming, simple past and past participle quemed)
- (obsolete) To please, to satisfy.
- c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book V:
- My fader nyl for no thyng do me grace / To gon aȝeyn, for naught I kan hym queme [...].
- 1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets:
- Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.
- 1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset:
- On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.
- 1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:
- Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
- c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book V:
Related terms
- quemly, quemely
Asturian
Verb
queme
- first-person singular present subjunctive of quemar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of quemar
Spanish
Verb
queme
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of quemar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of quemar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of quemar.
Noun
queme m (plural quemes)
- burnout (psychology and ergonomics)