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- Quail
- Quaker
- Quantitative Poetry
- Quarto
- Quatrain
- Queen of Sheba
- Quem Quaeritis
- Quick and the Dead
- Quintain
- Quivières
- Quo Vadis?
- Quotation
- Quran
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A-Z: General definitions: Quem Quaeritis
Definition
Meaning 'Whom do you seek?' Line spoken by the angel at the tomb of Christ to the women: 'Whom seek ye in the sepulchre, O followers of Christ?' Part of the simple dramatic elaboration of the Easter story which formed part of the tenth-century 'Regularis Concordia', a book of monastic customs.
Translation
Latin: Quem quaeritis, 'Whom do you seek?'.Supernatural beings closely linked with the work of God; his messengers, traditionally portrayed as having a winged human form.
Title (eventually used as name) given to Jesus, refering to an anointed person set apart for a special task such as a king.
Title (eventually used as name) given to Jesus, refering to an anointed person set apart for a special task such as a king.
The monastic movement consists of communities of monks. Communal life was built around prayer, the opus dei or work of God.
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