Meanings
present singular third person quemes · participle present queming · participle past quemed · past quemed
- obsoleteTo please, to satisfy.
Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature2 more examples
Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.
1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poetsOn 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.
1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷem-“to go, come”
- Proto-Germanic*kwēmijaną“to please, be convenient, suit”
- Proto-West Germanic*kwāmijan
- Old Englishcwēman“to gratify, satisfy, please”
- Middle Englishquemen“to please”
- Englishqueme
From Middle English quemen (“to please”), from Old English cwēman (“to gratify, satisfy, please”) (compare cwēme (“pleasant, agreeable, acceptable”) and cwēmnes (“pleasure, satisfaction, mitigation”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāmijan, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaną (“to please, be convenient, suit”), from *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Compare obsolete Swedish kväma, Danish kvemme. Related to Old English cuman (“to come”), English come. Compare also quim.
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