English

Verb

queme ‎(third-person singular simple present quemes, present participle queming, simple past and past participle quemed)

1. (obsolete) To please, to satisfy.
   • c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book V:

     My fader nyl for no thyng do me grace / To gon aȝeyn, for naught I kan hym queme [...].

   • 1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets:

     Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.

   • 1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset:

     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.

   • 1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:

     Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);

Related terms

• quemly, quemely

Asturian

Verb

queme

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of quemar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of quemar

Spanish

Verb

queme

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of quemar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of quemar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of quemar.

Noun

queme m ‎(plural quemes)

1. burnout (psychology and ergonomics)