"quære" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "quæres",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quæring",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quæreing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quæred",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quæred",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "quaere"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1797, J[ohn] Penn, Critical and Poetical Works, London: […] Elmsly, […], pages 123–124",
          "text": "Quære, might not hair dressers friz and turn, though not shave, classically, according to the dignifying principles of the sculptor?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Obsolete form of quaere."
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  "word": "quære"
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    {
      "form": "quæres",
      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
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  "word": "quære"
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        "present",
        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "quæring",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quæreing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quæred",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quæred",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "text": "Quære, might not hair dressers friz and turn, though not shave, classically, according to the dignifying principles of the sculptor?",
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        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete form of quaere."
      ],
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