[f. QUEER a.1 + -LY2.] Strangely, oddly.

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1707.  Hearne, Collect., 16 April (O. H. S.), II. 6. [He] liv’d querely.

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1714.  in Somers, Tracts (1748), I. 387. The Earl looked queerly.

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1790.  Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, 6 May. A sister-in-law of the queerly celebrated Miss Monckton.

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1864.  Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., IV. 395. Names … queerly inappropriate.

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