▪ I. † querele, n. Obs.
[Orig. form of quarrel n.3 (q.v.), occasionally employed (prob. under influence of L. querēla) after quar(r)el had become the usual form.]
1. A complaint; an action. = quarrel 1.
| 1494 Fabyan Chron. an. 1123 To go before the king with a lamentable querele expressing how with true despites he was deformed. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 146 Such persones, as dooe by a wrongfull querele obiecte vnto me, that [etc.]. 1628 Coke On Litt. 292 If a man release all Quereles..all actions reall and personall are released. 1726 Ayliffe Parerg. [189] Not in Causes of Appeal, but in Causes of first Instance and simple Querele only. |
2. A cause, affair, etc. = quarrel 2.
| 1552 Order St. Bartholomew's A v, So sufficiently..set forth this enormitie of the Citezeins, as semed behouefull for the querele of charitie. 1566 Grindal Lett. to Sir W. Cecil Wks. (Parker Soc.) 289 All ministers, now to be deprived in this querele of rites. |
So † querele v. = quarrel v. Hence † quereler, quarreller, objector. Obs.
| 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 306 The faulte fynder or quereler. 1548 ― Par. Luke xv. 133 The elder sonne..proudely quereled and reasoned the mattier with his father. |
▪ II. querele, -ell
obs. forms of quarrel n.3