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Quired vs Squired - What's the difference?

quired | squired |

As verbs the difference between quired and squired

is that quired is past tense of quire while squired is past tense of squire.

quired

English

Verb

(head)
  • (quire)

    • quire

    English

    Etymology 1

    (Paper quire) From (etyl) quier, from (etyl) quaier, from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 592:
    • Under the year 1533 we are told that the ream contained twenty quires .
  • * 1929 , , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 71:
    • […] and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, Villette'', ''Emma'', ''Wuthering Heights'', ''Middlemarch'', were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write ''Wuthering Heights'' or ''Jane Eyre .
  • (bookbinding ) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
  • A book, poem, or pamphlet.
    • Coordinate terms
    * (quantity of paper) bale, bundle, ream

    Verb

    (quir)
  • (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
  • * 1870 , William White, Notes and Queries , vol. 42:
    • Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout.
  • * 1938 , The Dolphin: A Journal of the Making of the Books , issue 3:
    • This is a natural point at which to ask why quiring went out of fashion.
  • * 1976 , Alfred William Pollard, Alfred William Pollard: A Selection of his Essays :
    • By means of these smooth pages we can mostly see how the modern binder made up the book, but whether in doing this he followed the original quiring is quite another matter.

    See also

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    Etymology 2

    (choir) Older spelling of choir.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A choir.
  • * c.1590 , , I.iii:
    • Madam, myself have lim'd a bush for her,
    And plac'd a quire of such enticing birds,
    That she will light to listen to the lays,
    And never mount to trouble you again.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire
  • The architectural part of a church in which the choir resides, between the nave and the sanctuary.

    • Verb

    (quir)
  • To sing in concert.
  • * c.1598 , , V.i:
    • Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: / There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortal souls; / But whilst this muddy vesture of decay / Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
  • * 1938 , "
    • He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing-the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night.
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    squired

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (squire)

    • squire

    English

    (wikipedia squire)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
  • A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
  • A male attendant on a great personage.
  • A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
  • (UK, colloquial)

    • Verb

    (squir)
  • To attend as a squire
    • (Chaucer)
  • To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
    • to squire a lady
    (Goldsmith)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) See square.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
  • * 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
    • But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
    • do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
  • *
    • as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
  • * 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
    • twelve foot and a half by the squire .

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