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QUAINT. a 1300 Cursor M. 5707 (Giitt.) Quenbai war quaintid. .pis moyses and sir Raguell [etc.]. c 1330 [see ACQUAINT P. 3]. c 1350 Will. Palerne 4644 He ceynted him queyntli with po tvo ladies, a 1400-50 A lexander 213 Now sail je here How he . . quayntid him with ladis. 1509 BARCLAY Shyp of Folys (1570) 81 Spede your pace, To quaynt your selfe and company with grace. 1591 NASHE Prognost. i To quaint my selfe with the art of Nauigation. 1606 WARNER Alb, Eng. xv. xciv. (1612) 378 God quaints not with Baal. 1886 ELWORTHY W. Somerset lVord-bk., Quaint, to acquaint, inform. Hence f Q,uarnted///. a. 1 , familiar. Obs. 1586 W. WEBBE Eng. Poetric (Arb.) 75 Heere by the quainted floodes and springs most holie remaining. t Quaint, z>. 2 Obs. Also 5 coynt(e. [In sense i, a. OF. cointicr t cointer, f. cointe quaint; ( + variations of suffix, as -ice, -ese, -yze, etc.). [a. OF. cointise^ cuint-^ quentise^ etc., t. queinte cointe^ : see QUAINT a. and -ISE^.] 1. Wisdom, cleverness, skill, ingenuity. 1197 R. GLOUC. (Rolls) 1872 He ladde is kinedom Rijtuolliche & suibe wel wib quoyntbe & wisdom, c 1330 Spec. Gy Warw. 303 pere is euere ioye inouh . . Wit andkunning and kointise. a 1340 HAM POLE Psalter, Cant. 519 Genge withouten counsayl it is and withouten quayntis. c 1415 Seven Sag. (P.) 378 Fondys..For to holde my lyf a day With qweyntys of clergye. b. Cunning, craft, underhand dealing. a 1300 Cursor M. 740 (Gntt.) pe nedder bat es of suilk a schaft, Mast ofquantise es in [v.r. and of] craft. 1300 GOWER Conf. I. 72 This ypocrite of hb queintise Awaitetn evere til she slepte. c 1450 St. Cutkbtrt (Surtees) 1847 pe deuel with his quayntys Will be aboute jow to suppryse. 1^80 CAXTON Ckron. Eng, liii. 37 Vortiger . . thought priuely in his herte thurgh queyntyse to bee kyng. 2. An instance of cleverness, cunning, or craft; a device, stratagem, trick. 1197 R. GLOUC. (Rolls) 445 Brut & Corineus an quointise hpm bi-boujte. c 13*0 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2769 Thai ne might hit no lenger defende. But ase thai dede a fair queintise. c 1440 Ipomydon 359 She hyr bythought on a . . queyntyse, To wete, where of he were come. 1483 CAXTON G. de la Tour D viij, Suche coyntyses . . were to compare to the Cop- spin that made his nette to take the flyes. 3. Cunning or skilful construction, rare. ^1330 Artk. fy Merl, 3566 (KSlbing) J>ere bo men mi;t yhere be queintise of be spere, Of pe sonne, of mone & ster. 4. Fine or curious dress ; fineness, elegance, or fancifulness in dress. 13.. K. Alts. 173 Ladies, and damoseHs, Maken heom . . redy In faire atire, in divers . coyntise. 13. E. E. Allit.P. B. 54 pay . . schulde . . in comly quoyntls to com to his feste. c \ipoRom. Rose 2250 He that loveth trewely Shulde. .him disgysen in queyntyse. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 146 The queintise, the plesaunt folyes, and the foule delytis that haue be used for. .worldely plesaunce. [1570 LEVINS Manip. 148/10 A Quentise, modus, mos insolitus.\ 5. A device, cognizance, badge, armorial bearing ; a coat of arms, or any cloth bearing a heraldic device. Cf. COINTISE. 13. . Coer de L. 5657 A queyntyse off the kynges owen, Upon hys hors was i-throwen. 1:1330 Arth. fy Merl. 8671 (Kolbing) pai [the helmets] hadde aooue riche queintise Of beten gold. 1375 BARBOUR Bruce xm. 183 Armorts and quyntis that thai bare. I Quaintise, v. Oh. Forms: 4 queintise, 5 queyntiae, coyntise. [? f. prec., or a. OF. cointiss'i lengthened stem of cointirl\ trans. To beautify, adorn, dress finely. 1390 GOWER Conf. II I. 358 Sondri thinges wel devised, I sih, wherof thei ben queintised. c \\. 1430 Pilgr. LyfManhode iii. (1869) 77 He weeneth he be now wel arayed and queyntised ! 1483 CAXTON G. de la Tour C iij, They haue so many gownes wherof they coyntyse and araye their bodyes. Hence f Quaintising vbl. sb. t adornment, decoration. Obs. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode H. civ. (1869) 113 Garnementes of velewet beten with gold and siluer and oothere queyntisinges. Quaintish. (kw^-ntij), a. [f. QUAINT a. + -ISH !.] Somewhat quaint. 1594 WILLOBIE Avis* (1880) 53 Your quaintish quirkcs can 14 want no mate. 1796 LAMB Let. to Coleridge in Final Mem. i. 195 The concluding simile is far-fetched 'tempest- ' honoured is a quaintish phrase. 1862 SHIRLEY Nveae Crit. M. 440 The laureate has alluded to the present effect.. in some nappy but quaintish lines. So Quai'ntlike a. 1844 Blockit'. Mag. LVI. 159 Good and quaintlike old gentle rhymes they are. Quaintly (kw^ntli), adv. Forms : as QUAINT a - + 3-5 -liok(e, -lych(e, -Ii, 4-6 -lye, 4- -ly. Camp. 4 queyntlyer, 7 quaintlier. Sup. 4 queyntlokest, quoyntelucst. [f. QUAINT a. + in sense 2, f. QUAINT a. 10.] 1. trans. To adorn, to make fine or beautiful. 1483 CAXTON G. d( la Tour (1868) 167 Thus loste . . theldest dougnter her maryage bycause she coynted her self. ibid. 1 68 He thenne hadde . . coynted hym self of a scarlat te gowne, 2. To quaint it, to assume a air. prim 1:1585 Faire Em, m. 1281 Let Mistress nice go saint it where she list, And coyly quaint It with dissembling face. Hence t Quarnted///. a. 2 (in 5 coynted). r 1500 Melusitte 315 In an euyl heure sawe I euer thy coynted body, thy facion, & thy fayre fygure. t Qnarntance. Obs. la 4 quoynt-, 4-6 queynt-, (5 qw-), 6 quaynta(u)nce ; 5-7 Sc. quentanoe, (5 quyntans). [Cf. QUAINT v?\ = ACQUAINTANCE, q.v. c 1300 [see ACQUAINTANCE a], c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxx. (Theodera) 85 He come to bis theodera & mad his quyntans ..with hyr. c 1489 CAXTON Blanckardyn xx. 67 Sore harde was his queyntaunce to her. a 103 Lu. BERNFKS Huon xxx. 92 One toke queyntance ofan other. 1567 Sattr. Poems Reform, viii. 28 For all bi quentance with be quene. 1603 [see ACQUAINTANCE 2]. t sb. Obs. Quaintise, Forms: a. 4 koint-, quointise, quoyntis(e, quint-, quynt-, qwyntia(e, 4-5 ooyntise, koyntis. 0. 4 qwayntyse, qwaiutis, 4-5 quaynty se , quantyse, qwantis 'e tL Skilfully, cleverly, ingeniously, so as to accomplish some act or attain some end. Obs. 1297 R. GLOUC (Rolls) . 3324 po bibo^te . vortiger hou he mi^te do quoyntelucst [vj~. queyntlokest] fiat he him sulf were king. ^1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1128 pe kynges brother & y Ar skaped out fol queyntely. c 1400 Destr. Troy 164 Thus coyntly it kept was all with clene art, 1429 ; qucintise, queyntyse, qweyntise, 4-6 quentise tr. Sccreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 167 A newe Payne he founde, by the whyche fals luges queyntly he chastid. 1513 DOUGLAS SEneis x. xi. heading^ Juno rycht quayntly causis Turnus to flee. 1593 R. HARVEY Philad. 21 He and his surveyed it quantitatively and queintly to the purpose. i6 DEKKER Land. Triumph. Wks. 1873 III. 253 A song is heard ; the musicke being queintly comieyecl in a priuate room, and not a person discouered. 71708 PRIOR Turtle
QUAKE. It appears, however, from a letter of intelligence, written at London on Oct. 14, 1647, that the name had previously been applied to the members of some foreign religious sect : heare of a Sect of woemen (they are at Southworke) come from beyond Sea, called Quakers, and these swell, shiver, and shake, and when they come to themselves (for in all this fitt Mahomett's holy-ghost hath bin conversing with them) they begin to preache what hath bin delivered to them by the Spiritt' (Clarendon MSS. No. 2624). It thus seems probable that Bennet merely employed a term already familiar, and quite appropriate as descriptive of Fox's earlier adherents (cf. quots. 1654, 1694, and see QUAKING vbl. si'. and///, a. 2). The name has never been adopted by the Friends themselves, but is not now regarded as a term of reproach. 1653 H. R. (title} A Brief Relation of the Irreligion of the Northern Quakers. 1654 E. TERRILL in R. Barclay's Inner Life (1876) 317 Thus, they coming as foretold, they were not known, but afterwards they were called by the name of ' Quakers ', from people's shaking and quaking that received them and their doctrine. 1656 EVELYN Mem. (1857) I. 332, I had the curiosity to visit some Quakers here in prison : a new fanatic sect, of dangerous principles, who shew no respect to any man, magistrate, or other. 1679 Trial of Langhorn 53 He is no Quaker, for he hath got a Perriwig on. 1694 DE LA PRYME Diary (Surtees) 53 The Quakers . . do not now quake, and howl, and foam with their mouths, as they did formerly. 1731 Gentl. Mag. I. 60 The practice of the people called Quakers, who maintain none of their poor in idleness that are able to work. 1771 SMOLLETT Humph. Cl. 26 June, By his garb, one would have taken him for a quaker, but he had none of the stiffness of that sect. 1837 W. IRVING Capt. BonmvilU I. 183 In one respect, their religion partakes of the pacific doctrines of the Quakers. 1876 BANCROFT Hist. U, -V. I. *. j6 3 The early Quakers in ' I 15 being a Quaker. ) Qna'kery, Quakerism. 1839 CAROLINE Fox Jrnls. (1882) 42 He spoke very civilly of modern "Quakerdom. 1855 Tail's Mag. XXII. 445 Ellwood was a convert to Quakerdom. 1827 HARE Guesses (1867) 132 The Jacobinical metonomatosis of the months., might be lopkt upon as a parody of the "Quakerian. 1847 MACAULAY in Trevelyan Life II. 215 Translate the following passage into the "Quakeric dialect. 1685 Answ. Dk. 5 JUec., INo amount of *ql could render the car uncomfortable. 1825 Miss MITFORD in L'Estrangeii/ir (1870) II. 198 She is all over "Quakerized, as you of course know. 1826 B. BARTON Select., etc. (1849) 6 'Twould be cook-ship versus "Quaker-ship. 1673 HALLY- WELL Ace. Familism iv. 75 "Quakery, though it pretend high, is mere Sadducism at the Bottom. 1688 BUKYAN Heavenly Footman (1886) 156 Thou may'st stumble and fall, . . both in ranting and quakery. Quakeress (kw^'-ksres). [f. QUAKER + -ESS.] A female Quaker. 1764 STF.WARDSON (title) Spiritual Courtship, or, The Rival Quakeresses. 1821 LAMB Elia Ser. i. Quakers Meeting, Every Quakeress is a lily. 1827 HONE Everyday Bk. II. no Three young quakeresses had a sort of semi-bathing. 1852 MRS. STOWE Uncle Tom's C. xiii. 116 A burst of joy from the little Quakeress interrupted the speech. Quakerish (kw^'karij), a. [f. as prec. + -ISH.] a. Of : persons Resembling Quakers in character or manners. b. Of things: Characteristic of, appropriate to, Quakers. 1787 M. CUTLER in Lift, Jrnh. $ Corr. (1888) I. 210 We were very Quakerish, every man attending close to the business of eating, without uttering scarcely a word. 1822 \.\VLV Lett., to Bernard Barton \\\. 113 Your plain Quakerish beauty has captivated me. 1847 C. liKUNJE J. byre xxiv, QUAKY. cold hert moothers, for Greekish victorye quaking. 1603 DRAYTON Bar. If 'ars vi. Ixxxvii, That ne'er quayles me, at which your greater quake. 1641 HINDE J. Bruen xlvii. 154 At which lime, .the Devill will quake, yea he doth quake for feare now. 1711 AomsoN Spect. No. 44 f i The sounding of the Clock in I'enite Preserved, makes the Hearts of the whole Audit-nee quake. 1759 ROBKRTSON Hist. Scot. \\\\. Wks. 1813 II. 52 The fellow in the .study stood quaking and trembling. 1800 WELLINGTON Let. to Lieut. Col. Close in Gurw. De$p. (1837) I. 103, I quake for the fort at Munserabad. 1847 J. WILSON Chr. North (1857) II. 22 Our heart quaked too desperately to suffer us to shriek. i88a OUIDA Maremma I. 18 His name was a terror that made the dead quake in their graves. reft, a 1300 Cursor M. 19633 (Gott.) Saul him quok, sua was he rad. f c. With anger. Obs. rare. 1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. (1810) 292 pe kyng his wordes toke wrabefully tille herte, For ire nere he quoke. ("1374 CHAUCER Boeth. iv. iit. pr. 94 (Camb. MS.) Yif he be distempre and qunkith for Ire, men shal weene bat he berej> the corage of a lyon. f 3. trans. To cause to quake. Obs. 1398 TREVISA Bartk. De P. R. x. v. (1495) 377 A full lytyll uftynge of wynde quakyth and styryth flamme. 1607 HAKS. Cor. i. ix. 6 Where ladies shalt be frighted, And quak'd, heare more. 1614 H. GREENWOOD Jayle liv, 468 The property of the Law is to humble and quake us for our sins. 1639 HEYWOOD Loud, peaceable Est. Wks. 1874 V. 372 Cannon. .Quaking the bellowing Ayre. 4. Comb.) as f quake-belly, a fat-bellied person ; f quake-breech ,-buttoek, one wanting in courage ; f quakeful a,, causing fear or quaking ; f quakemire, a quagmire ; also as vb., to ; quagmire quakeooze, soft trembling ooze j quake-tail Ornith. (see quot. 1894). 1622 MABBE tr. Alemarfs Guzman d*Alf. 223 They will all forsooth be alike, the tall man as the short, the *Quackbelly as the Scranio. c 1590 in Drake Seer. Mem. Earl Leicester (1706) 118, I shall surely be *Quack-breech and think every Bush a Boggle. 1616 WITHALS Diet. 400 Excor$i . . a faint hearted fellow, a quake-breech, a 1616 BEAUM. & FL. Wit atSev. Weap. i. i, Stand putting in one foot, and shiver, .. like a *quake-buttock. 1609 HEYWOOD Brit. Troy xin. xxxii, All imbrude in fight, His *Quakefull hand and sword so often rearing. 1577 STANYHURST Descr. /re/, in Holinshed (1807-8) VI. 21 He was forced to fasten the *quakemire with hurdels, and upon them to build the citie. 1583 STOCKER Civ. Warres Lowe C. u. 70 a, His horse was gotten into a quackmyre. 1599 CHAPMAN Hum. dayes Myrth Plays 1873 I. 73 Howe nowe my liege ! what, in Philosophic. 1898 Daily News 23 Nov. 6/2 Siackemyred ver a lot of *quake-ooze flats, where a boat could not get. 1855 OGILVIE Imp. Diet. Suppl. *Quake-taiL 1894 NEWTON Diet. Birds, Quake-tail^ a book-name invented for the Yellow Wagtailand its allies, after they had been generically separated from Motacilla as Budytes. t Quake, int. and v2 Obs. Also Sc. 6 quaik, 8 -ck, [Imitative : see QUACK, and cf. Du. kwaken, G. quaken to croak, quack.] = QUACK int. and v. a 1599 SKKLTON E. Rumniyng 506 Quake, quake, sayd the duck. 1549 Compl, Scot. vi. 39 The dukis cryit quaik. 1567 HARMANQw*/(i869) 83 A quakinge chete or a redshanke, a drake or ducke. 1785 BURNS Addr. Deil viii, An eldritch, stoor quaick, quaick. Quaker (kw^-kai). [f. QUAKE 2.1 + -EK 1 .] One who, or that which, quakes. 1. = pi, QUAKING-GRASS. Midi. dial. iS97GERARDE/^>-/>a/i.lvii.8i Phalaris pratensis is called in Cheshire about Namptwich, Quakers and Shakers. 1611 COTGR., Amourettes, the grasse tearmed, Quakers, and Shakers, or quaking grasse. i6i7M]NSHEU/?wc^?-,Quackers, or quaking grasse. 1882 W. Wore. Gloss. 1890 Glouc. Gloss. 2. With : capital Q A member of the religious society (the Society of New England displayed Friends) founded by George Fox in 1648-50, distinguished bypeaceful principles and plainness of dress and manners. little of the mild philosophy, .of Penn. b. transf. Applied to various plain-coloured birds and moths, with allusion to the colour of the dress usually worn by Quakers. () A small bird of the Falkland Islands. ( The sooty albatross, (c) The nankeen-bird, or Australian night-heron. (;fSs .Sake xxxlii, So quaintly and quakerishly pretty. Quakerism class, Quakerism. QuakeTian, Qnakeric, f Quakeri'stical adjs., Quakerly, Quakerish. Quakeriza tion, the action of Quakerizing. Qna'kerize v., to convert into a Quaker ; to affect with qualities characteristic of a Quaker. Qtia'kership, the condition of (kwvi-korizm). [f. as prec. + -ISM.] The principles or practice of the Quakers or Society of Friends. 1656 in Brand Hist. Neivcastle (1780) U. 235 A great apostacy..to popery, quakerisme and afl manner of heresy. 1751 CHESTERF. Lett, ccxxxi, Plainness, simplicity, and Quakerism, either in dress or manners. 1776-01 PAINE Com. Sense App. Addr. Quakers 81 The love and desire of peace is not confined to Quakerism. 1856 R. A. VAUGHAN Mystics (1860) II. xi. i. 214 The elements of Quakerism lie all complete in the personal history of Fox. Quakerly (kw^-kajli), a. [f. as prec. + -LY^.] Like a Quaker ; befitting a Quaker. _ Drry to him grow so Quakerly. 1829 MACAULAY Misc. Writ. (1860) I. 284 They therefore affect a quakerly plainness. Quakerly (kw^'-kojli), adv. [f. as prec. + -LY 2 .] After the fashion of a Quaker. 1696 C. LESLIE Snake in Grass (1697) 368 What Quaker, or Quakerly-Affected Council drew up this Answer for him? 1826 LAMB Let. to B. Barton in Final Mem. viii. 259 Do I write quakerly and simply, 'tis my. .intention to do it. 1847 MRS. CARLYLE Lett. II. 6 If 'you feel a stop ' (Quakerly speaking), best to let it have way. Quakery : see under QUAKER. Qua-kiness. [f. QUAKY a.] The condition of being quaky (Webster, 1864). -vbl. sb. Quaking (kw^-kirj), [f. QDAKE &.! + -ING 1 .] 1. The action of the vb. QUAKE in various senses. cB*$ Vcsp. Psalter liv. 6 E^e & cwaecung cwomun ofer mec. c looo ^LFRIC Horn. 1. 504 Waes se munt Garganus bifijende mid ormsetre cwacunge. 1*97 R. GLOUC. (Rolls) 6894 pat heo. .steppe mid folle vot wiboute quakinge. c 1374 CHAUCER Anel.
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