Etymology From Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”).
1
Law To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
Otherwise archaic
Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man be made to see: quaere, whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube?1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding:
Now, she cannot express her emotions fully: Quaere: will she feel them fully?1970, Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander:
quaere
noun
Etymology From Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”).
Had ten dozen of hornets stung him behind in so many places all at one time,—he could not have […] started half so much, as with one single quære of three words unseasonably popping in full upon him.1761, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC: