queme

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  1. Pleasing; agreeable. Wherfore I beqwethe me to your qweme spouse, To lyue with in lykyng to my lyfes ende. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 633.
  2. To become; suit; fit; satisfy; please. That [virtue] is approperid into noo degree, But the firste Fadir in magestee, Which may his heires deeme hem that him queme, Al were he mytre, corone, or diademe. Chaucer, Gentleness, l. 20. God ʒeue us grace in oure lyuynge To serue oure God, & Marie to qweeme. Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 55. Parys full pristly with preciouse araye Worshippit that worthy in wedys full riche, As qwemet for a qwene & qwaintly atyret, That Priam hade purueit & to the place sent. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 3404. Such merimake holy Saints doth queme. Spenser, Shep. Cal., May.
  3. To become; come to be. To qweme qwyt of all other, To skape out of skathe and sklaunder to falle. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 1809.

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  1. Middle English, also quem, cweme, earlier i-queme, i-cweme, from Anglo-Saxon gecwēme, pleasing, agreeable, acceptable, fit (cf., with different prefix, Old High German biquāmi, Middle High German bequæme, German bequem, fit), from ge-, a generalizing prefix, + cuman (preterit *cwam, com), come: see come, and cf. become and comely.
  2. Middle English quemen, from Anglo-Saxon cwēman, also gecwēman, please, satisfy, propitiate, from gecwēme, pleasing, becoming: see queme, adjective
 

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