a. Also 7 quere-. [ad. late L. querimōniōs-us: see next and -OUS. Cf. obs. F. querimonieux (Godef.).] Full of, addicted to, complaining.
1604. in R. Cawdrey, Table Alph.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Epigr., xxxvi. Wks. II. 266/1. Querimonious paines Doe puluerise the concaue of my braines.
1658. Osborn, Adv. Son (1673), 206. Querimonious accusations of his best Servants.
1791. J. Collinson, Hist. Somerset, III. 608. It was on this solitary island that Gildas … composed his querimonious treatise De Excidio Britanniæ.
1848. Mozley, Ess., Luther (1878), I. 354. That passionate and querimonious temper.
Hence Querimoniously adv.; Querimoniousness (Bailey, vol. II. 1727).
a. 1668. Denham, A Dialogue. Most queremoniously confessing That I of late have been compressing.
