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third-person singular simple present quemes, present participle queming, simple past and past participle quemed
(obsolete) To please, to satisfy. quotations
Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.
1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets
On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.
1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset
Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature