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Webster 1913 Edition
Inquiry
1.
The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
He could no path nor track of foot descry,
Nor by
Nor by
inquiry
learn, nor guess by aim. Spenser.
The men which were sent from Cornelius had made
inquiry
for Simon’s house, and stood before the gate. Acts x. 17.
2.
Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination into facts or principles; research; investigation;
as, physical
. inquiries
All that is wanting to the perfection of this art will undoubtedly be found, if able men . . . will make
inquiry
into it. Dryden.
Syn. – Interrogation; interrogatory; question; query; scrutiny; investigation; research; examination.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inquiry
INQUI'RY
, n.1.
The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation. The men who were sent from Cornelius, had made inquiry for Simon's house,and stood before the gate. Acts.10.
2.
Search for truth, information or knowledge; research; examination into facts or principles by proposing and discussing questions, by solving problems, by experiments or other modes; as physical inquiries; inquiries about philosophical knowledge.The first inquiry of a rational being should be, who made me? the second, why was I made? who is my Creator, and what is his will?