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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.

Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning. [Obs.] Shenstone.

One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.

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 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.…

Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer. A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent. Broome.

An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions. [R.] "Inquisitors are tatlers." Feltham.

man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. Beau. & Fl. Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. De Quincey.

Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty.

One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner. Jer. Taylor.

To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body.

ing, or of demanding of an officer an explanation of his action; imperative or peremptory questioning; a point raised in a debate.

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

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.

A formal question or inquiry; esp. (Law), a question asked in writing. Macaulay.

A conservation, or questioning, for the purpose of eliciting information for publication; the published statement so elicited.

e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by ReuEtacism. In all such questions between a the confusing element of itacism comes in. Alford.

One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic. A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of th…