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Querel(l, Querrell, Quar(r)el(l, v. Also: quarrill, qweiral. [ME (appar. once only) querele(n (Gower), e.m.E. quarell (1530), quarrell, OF quereler (F. quereller), L. querēlāre to complain.]

1. intr. To fall into dispute or find fault with another. 1565 in Knox VI 410.
They ask me judgementes of justice, that is, they querrell with me

2. tr. To find fault with, blame, reprove, reproach; to call in question, challenge, impeach, accuse, sue (another or others).(a) 1586–7 Rait & Cameron King James's Secret 142.
For he had querellit me twyse of befoir with mere inventions of his awin
1588 Reg. Privy C. IV 330.
Querrelling him for the allegeit breking of arreistment
1596 Misc. Spald. C. V 374.
That the saidis prouest [etc.] … sall not be callit, qweiralit, nor accusit thairfoir be ony maner of way
1597 Ib. I 111.
Querellen thé for the witching of thair milnes
1598 James VI Basil. Doron 76/1. 1599 Reg. Great S. 304/1.
Incace I … querrell … or persew thame for nullitie … of this present tak
1606 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 57.
[We] sall newir querrell be oure selffis … beir gruge feid hatred or inimitie … aganis quhatsumewir persone … for quhatsumewir domag [etc.]
1606 Lett. Eccl. Affairs I 40. 1612 Prot. Bk. W. Leslie 17a.
We … obleisses ws neuer to trwble [etc.] … querrell call switt or persew ciuilie or criminallie the said Robert
1622-6 Bisset I 121/24.(b) 1590–1 Crim. Trials I ii 238.
For being att the conventioune … quhair sche quarrellit hir maister the Dewill
1597–8 Misc. Spald. C. II 139.
That the dittae is sufficient aneuche to quarrell ane malefactour
1587-99 Hume 85/179.
Bot if thou be falsely & vniustly quarrelled, then [etc.]
1601 Bk. Dunvegan I 46. 1603 Moysie 96.
The diuk [sic in pr.] quarrellit the chanceller for vsing sum tanting wordis
1606–7 Crim. Trials III 621. 1624 Melrose P. 570. 1626–7 Sel. Biog. I 352.
Bot I will quarrell you no moir, for [etc.]
1631 Ib. 358.
Nou quhen God is quarrilling us
1677 Aberd. Council Lett. VI 112.
So that the Earl of Crawford … could not be heard to quarrell them for their intromissione with the rents of their own localitie
1680 Brodie Diary 442.
We wer quarrelled for not seing them

3. To dispute the truth, justice, validity or advisability of (some action, decision, right, etc.), to call in question, challenge, contest, oppose. Also absol.(a) 1582 Misc. Stair Soc. I 121.
Nather ar thair in thai pointis … sa greit diversities as are querrellit haifing respect to the diversitie of the daitis and the notaris yeiris and aige
1592 Cal. Sc. P. X 744.
[This carries with it some excuse in case it were] querelit
16.. Hist. Kennedy 15.
Scho … querrellit this Bessie Kennedyis infeftment, and entirit in proces with hir
Ib. 53. 1621 Acts IV 624/2.
That he passeth frome the wreate querrellit of falshoode
c1650 Spalding I 69.
Querellit
Ib. 95. 1672 Aberd. Council Lett. V 205.
Nether wes it ever hard that the illegalitie of such ane procedor … wes ever querrellit
(b) 1592 Mining Rec. 62.
Howbeit my rycht can nocht be na law or justice be quarrellit
1592 Orkney Oppress. 103. 1593 St. A. Kirk S. 769.
That thai haif subscrivit ane procuratorie to quarrell the electioun of saidis present magistratis befoir the lordis
1593 Cal. Sc. P. XI 207.
[What was done by advice of the Kirk] sould nocht be quarrelled be the Kirk
1593 Ayr Chart. 119. 1600-1610 Melvill 370.
The king interrupts me, and crabbotlie quarrels our meitting, alleaging it was … seditius
1607 Dundonald Par. Rec. 128. 1612 Conv. Burghs II 363. 1623 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. I 9. 1624 Ib. 18. a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 287.
The lords assoylȝed from the secund reasone quherby the testament wes quarrelled of nullitie
Ib. 77. 1635 Maxwell Mem. II 255.
Hes gottin a gift of the abbacy of Lyndoris, with power to quarrell all fewes
1639 Army of the Covenant I lxxiv.
And in caice any persone … sall repyne or quarrell such punischement … in that caise they sall be held as mutiners
1654 Lanark B. Rec. 154.
He micht be hard to quarell and impung the saids lichts
1656 Ib. 156. 1668-9 Fraser Lawfulness Separ. 49.
Bonds made by minors … if yet not quarrelled in annos utiles … they become valid
a1670 Scot Staggering State 142.
This will not fail to be quarrelled by succeeding ages
1673 Justiciary Ct. Rec. II 192. c1680 W. Row Blair 138. 1688 Rothesay B. Rec. 437. 1689 Leven & Melv. P. 201.
Quareled
1690 Corshill Baron Ct. 183.
If the friends of her bairnes quarreled her paying of that debt
absol. 1696 Conv. Burghs IV 216.
Never to quarrell, impugne, contravert or come in the contrair

b. To call in question, challenge, a person's possession of (a chattel). — 1672 Justiciary Ct. Rec. II 123.
And that these 8 sheep quarrelled did voluntarily return to their own cott

4. a. To assail (a person) with abuse, to revile. 1593 Edinb. B. Rec. V 105.
David Williamsoun and certane others nychtbouris is querellit and minasset be the laird of Haltoun
1600-1610 Melvill 65.
And quarrels him schamfullie with manie thows and lyes
1616 Crim. Trials III 385.
He querrellit the said James Douglas thairupoun … and presentit ane bendit pistolet to him
1626 Kinghorn Kirk S. 30.
Quhair scho quarrellit him and gaue him iniurious wordis
1706 Rothesay Par. Rec. 213.
That night that John Butcher assaulted and quarrelled him

b. To assail, molest. 1600 Misc. Maitl. C. III 105.
Onnavayes invaid, persew, or querrell vtheris, be force, or way of deid
a1689 Cleland 28.
Was he not in a grievous perril, When hot lead did his horse luggs quarrel

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