† ˈconques, -queis, v. Sc. Obs.
Also 6 -ys, -eas, 6–7 -ess, 7 -ise, -ish.
[Exact formation doubtful: possibly f. conquese n.; or, like it, from the F. pa. pple. conquis, -ise (cf. comprise, compromise); but it may have been from the earlier pa. pple. conquest, by treating the t as the native suffix and taking conques as the stem. Conquest was subseq. treated as its pa. pple. and pa. tense (as if = conques + t), and conformed to its variant spellings, as conqueist, -queast, -quist.]
1. trans. To get possession of, acquire as property, to gain, win.
| c 1450 Henryson Mor. Fab. (1571) 29 To conques worldly good. 1556 Lauder Dewties of Kingis 254 Rather than Conqueis gold in cartis. c 1565 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 18 Greedy to conquess greater rents to his posterity. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. 26 Albeit the husband hes litill heritage, and hes conquessed thereafter many lands. 1633 W. Struther True Happines 9 In end they conquish vanitie of vanities. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 443 Our leel-come and lawfully conquessed joy. a 1653 Z. Boyd in Zion's Flowers (1855) Introd. 42 Man may conquise Lands to his Children. |
2. To gain in war, conquer; to win (a battle); to vanquish.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace ii. 358 Bot Wallace thriss this kynrik conquest haile. 1513 Douglas æneis ix. v. 102 As victouris..To conquys Itale. 1549 Compl. Scot. x. 85 Thai haue intendit veyris contrar scotland, in hope to conques it. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 78 So shall England be conqueast within a year. a 1651 Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 521 When Hannibal went to conqueisse Italle. |
Hence conquessed ppl. a., conquessing vbl. n.
| 1549 Compl. Scot. Prol. 14 The conquessingis of realmis. |