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English
Noun
quarrell (plural quarrells)
- Obsolete spelling of quarrel.
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 269, column 1:You miſtake ſir I am ſure, no man hath any quarrell to me: my remembrance is very free and cleere from any image of offence done to any man.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. (First Quarto), London: N O for Thomas Walkley, , published 1622, →OCLC, , page 30:If I can faſten but one cup vpon him, / With that which he hath drunke to night already, / Hee'll be as full of quarrell and offence, / As my young miſtris dog:—
1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: ">…] for Henrie Tomes, , →OCLC, folio 32, verso:ll beaſts and birds aſſembled; and forgetting their ſeuerall appetites; ſome of pray, ſome of game, ſome of quarrell, ſtood all ſociably together liſtening vnto the ayres and accords of the Harpe;
1654, Richard Whitlock, Zōotomia, or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English: Briefly Anatomizing the Living by the Dead. , London: Tho Roycroft, and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley, , →OCLC:he doth not set Businesse back by unquiet branglings, and findefaulting Quarrells
Verb
quarrell (third-person singular simple present quarrells, present participle quarrelling, simple past and past participle quarrelled)
- Obsolete spelling of quarrel.
1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: ">…] for Henrie Tomes, , →OCLC, folio 41, verso:here is no doubt but the facture or framing of the inward parts, is as full of difference, as the outward, and in that, is the Cauſe Continent of many diſeaſes, which not be obſerued, they quarrell many times with the humors which are not in fault, the fault being in the very frame and Mechanicke of the parte, which cannot be remoued by medicine alteratiue, but muſt be accomodate and palliate by dyets and medicines familiar.