sb. Obs. [Orig. form of QUARREL sb.3 (q.v.), occasionally employed (prob. under influence of L. querēla) after quar(r)el had become the usual form.]
1. A complaint; an action. = QUARREL 1.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., an. 1123. To go before the king with a lamentable querele expressing how with true despites he was deformed.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 146. Such persones, as dooe by a wrongfull querele obiecte vnto me, that [etc.].
1628. Coke, On Litt., 292. If a man release all Quereles … all actions reall and personall are released.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg. [189]. Not in Causes of Appeal, but in Causes of first Instance and simple Querele only.
2. A cause, affair, etc. = QUARREL 2.
1552. Order St. Bartholomew’s, A v. So sufficiently … set forth this enormitie of the Citezeins, as semed behouefull for the querele of charitie.
1566. Grindal, Lett. to Sir W. Cecil, Wks. (Parker Soc.), 289. All ministers, now to be deprived in this querele of rites.
So † Querele v. = QUARREL v. Hence † Quereler, quarreller, objector. Obs.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 306. The faulte fynder or quereler. Ibid. (1548), Par. Luke xv. 133. The elder sonne … proudely quereled and reasoned the mattier with his father.
