Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to quire
Participle: quired
Gerund: quiring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | quire |
| you | quire |
| he;she;it | quires |
| we | quire |
| you | quire |
| they | quire |
Perfect
| I | have quired |
| you | have quired |
| he;she;it | has quired |
| we | have quired |
| you | have quired |
| they | have quired |
Past
| I | quired |
| you | quired |
| he;she;it | quired |
| we | quired |
| you | quired |
| they | quired |
Pluperfect
| I | had quired |
| you | had quired |
| he;she;it | had quired |
| we | had quired |
| you | had quired |
| they | had quired |
Future
| I | will quire |
| you | will quire |
| he;she;it | will quire |
| we | will quire |
| you | will quire |
| they | will quire |
Future Perfect
| I | will have quired |
| you | will have quired |
| he;she;it | will have quired |
| we | will have quired |
| you | will have quired |
| they | will have quired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | quire |
| you | quire |
| he;she;it | quire |
| we | quire |
| you | quire |
| they | quire |
Perfect
| I | have quired |
| you | have quired |
| he;she;it | have quired |
| we | have quired |
| you | have quired |
| they | have quired |
Imperfect
| I | quired |
| you | quired |
| he;she;it | quired |
| we | quired |
| you | quired |
| they | quired |
Pluperfect
| I | had quired |
| you | had quired |
| he;she;it | had quired |
| we | had quired |
| you | had quired |
| they | had quired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would quire |
| you | would quire |
| he;she;it | would quire |
| we | would quire |
| you | would quire |
| they | would quire |
Perfect
| I | would have quired |
| you | would have quired |
| he;she;it | would have quired |
| we | would have quired |
| you | would have quired |
| they | would have quired |
Imperative
| you | quire |
| we | Let's quire |
| you | quire |
Verbs conjugated like 'quire'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'quire'
quine,
quirk,
quirl,
quirt,
quite,
squire,
acquire,
cure,
dure,
enquire,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English quayer, from Anglo-Norman quaier and Old French quaer, from Latin quaternus (“fourfold”), from quater (“four times”). Doublet of cahier.
Sample Sentences
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Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout. [1870, William White, Notes and Queries, volume 42:]
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This is a natural point at which to ask why quiring went out of fashion. [1938, The Dolphin: A Journal of the Making of the Books, number 3:]
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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. [1976, Alfred William Pollard, Alfred William Pollard: A Selection of his Essays:]