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To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding. Wheaton.

Confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor.

To seek or search out. [Obs.]

Search; inquiry; investigation. [Obs.]

Searching; exploring; investigating. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator. [Obs.] Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature. Boyle.

Indefatigableness; unweariedness. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

Entrance; ingress. [Obs.] Which hath in charge the ingate of the year. Spenser.

The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. Ex. xxii. 16.

The restitution of an outlawed person to the protection of the law; inlawing. Bouvier.

set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime. He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. Bp. Warburton.

Incitingly; temptingly.

The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness. The baseness and villainy that . . . the instigation of the devil could bring the sons of men to. South.

One who instigates or incites. Burke.

To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson.

One who is interrogated.

The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.

Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as, an interrogative sentence; an interrogative pronoun.

In the form of, or by means of, a question; in an interrogative manner.

One who asks questions; a questioner.