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English
Noun
Q.
- Abbreviation of Queen.
1684 [1559], Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, , 4th edition, London: Blanch Rawlet , →OCLC, title page:a COLLECTION of ARTICLES, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Conſtitutions Eccleſiaſtical, With other PUBLICK RECORDS of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charles I.
1689 [1683], Francis Osborn[e], “Some Traditional Memorials on the Reign of Q. Elizabeth”, in The Works of Francis Osborn, Esq; , 9th edition, London: Printed, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, →OCLC, paragraph 10, page 606:Wherefore the Earl of Eſſex, if he had not been befated with a ſtrong Opinion of ſucceſs in all his actions, (though built on the weakeſt foundation,) would never have referred his life and future well-being to the ſole arbitration of Chance, and the unconſtant guidance of a Womans Affection; which being only skin-deep, could not but in a Court furniſh a perſon of far leſs magnitude than a Sovereign Power with choice enough; eſpecially after his enemies, for their own ſecurity, had ſo far Indulged his, as to furniſh him with an Army paid by the Q. and choſen by himſelf.
1709, Nicholas Rowe, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear:And his Elogy upon Q. Elizabeth, and her Successor K. James, in the latter end of his Henry VII, is a Proof of that Play's being written after the Accession of the latter of those two Princes to the Crown of England.
1725, Ralph Winwood, Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by W B, for T. Ward, , →OCLC, title page:MEMORIALS of AFFAIRS of STATE in the REIGNS of Q. ELIZABETH and K. JAMES I.
a. 1716 (date written), Thomas Burnet, “An Index to the Two Volumes of This History”, in [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by Thomas Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. , volume II, London: Joseph Downing , and Henry Woodfall , published 1734, →OCLC, page 763, column 2:Tories taken in by K. William, II. 40, 242, 254. and by Q. Anne, 313, 314, 552.
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Latin
Proper noun
Q. m (indeclinable)
- Praenominal abbreviation of Quintus.
Vietnamese
Noun
Q.
- Abbreviation of quận.