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Inquire
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries. We will call the damsel, and inquire. Gen. xxiv. 57. Then David inquired of the Lord yet again. And the Lord answered him. 1 Sam. xxiii. 4.
2. To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination. And inquire Gladly into the ways of God with man. Miltom.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting. Having thus at length inquired the truth concerning law and dispense. Milton. And all obey and few inquire his will. Byron.
2. To call or name. [Obs.] Spenser.
Synonyms: ask; question. See Question.