Queme vs Quede - What's the difference?
queme | quede |
(lb) To please, to satisfy.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer), Troilus and Criseyde , Book V:
* 1801 , George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets :
* 1892 , Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset :
* 1906 , William Henry Schofield, English Literature :
In obsolete terms the difference between queme and quede
is that queme is to please, to satisfy while quede is evil, bad.As a verb queme
is to please, to satisfy.As a noun quede is
evil, wickedness.As an adjective quede is
evil, bad.queme
English
Verb
- My fader nyl for no thyng do me grace / To gon a?eyn, for naught I kan hym queme [...].
- Of body she was right avenant'', Of fair colour, with sweet ''semblant''. Her attire full well it seem'd, ''Marvellich'' the king she ''quemed .
- On 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.
- Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);