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exquire

exquire verb: to search into or out.

Verb

exquire (third-person singular simple present exquires, present participle exquiring, simple past and past participle exquired)

  1. (obsolete) To search into or out.
    • How she came by it, yet is not exquir'd1616–1618, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647...
    • That cloſe and moſt inennerable Pander
      That paſſeth all our ſtudies to exquire1603, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois

Forms of exquire

third-person singular presentexquires
present participleexquiring
past participleexquired
pastexquired

Origin of exquire

From Latin exquīrere. See exquisite.

Questions about exquire

What does exquire mean?
Exquire means to search into or out.
What part of speech is exquire?
Exquire is a verb.
What is the past tense of exquire?
The past tense of exquire is exquired.

Words near exquire in the dictionary

  1. expurging
  2. expwy
  3. expwys
  4. expy
  5. expys
  6. exquire
  7. exquired
  8. exquires
  9. exquiring
  10. exquisite
  11. exquisite corpse

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