queries

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Query \Que"ry\, n.; pl. Queries. [L. quaere, imperative sing. of quaerere, quaesitum to seek or search for, to ask, inquire. Cf. Acquire, Conquer, Exquisite, Quest, Require.]

1.A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved. [1913 Webster]

I shall conclude with proposing only some queries, in order to a . . . search to be made by others.— Sir I. Newton.[1913 Webster]

2.A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity. [1913 Webster]

3.An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt. [1913 Webster]

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