a. Obs. [OE. uncwéme (UN-1 7.): cf. uniqueme (UN-1 3), MSw. oqvām, MDa. ukvem.]

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  1.  Displeasing.

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c. 1000.  Vercelli MS., fol. 79 a. For þære [unsibbe] bið sio ure onsæʓdnes Gode uncweme.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 9. Ure lif we ledeð richtliche toȝenes ure louerd…, ȝif we forbereð al þat þat him is unqueme.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 4629. All þatt follȝheþþ unnclænleȝȝc All iss Drihhtin unncweme.

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  2.  Unfit, unsuitable; awkward.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 12411. Þis tre … Þat first vnquemest was to see Nu es it quem als it mai be.

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1611.  Cotgr., Maladroict, vnwieldie, aukward, vnwheeme.

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  3.  Uncomfortable, uneasy.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 22597. Þe self angels sal quake vnqueme For dute of him þat all sal deme.

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  So † Unquemable, a., -ably adv., Unquemefully adv., Unquemely [cf. MSw. oqvāmelika] adv. Also Unqueme v. [UN-2 3], to trouble, unsettle. Obs.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 3566. Þe heued biginnes for to scak, His hend vnquemli for to quak. Ibid., 22551. Vnquemfulli þan sal þai quak, Þat all þe erth it sal toscak.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 2693. Þou qwene, þat vnqwemyt has on sum qwaint wise, The angur thee is, Ecuba, entrond on honde! Ibid., 13681. Þen fortune his fall felli aspies, Vnqwemys his qwate, & þe qwele turnys.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 366/2. On-qwemable, inplacabilis. Ibid., On-qwemably, inplacabiliter.

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