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indagation

indagation noun: inquiry, investigation.

Noun

indagation (countable and uncountable, plural indagations)

  1. (obsolete) Inquiry, investigation.
    • Part hereof hath been discovered by himself, and some by humane indagation: which though magnified as fresh inventions unto us, are stale unto his cognition.1646, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 10
    • [T]his brief Inventory I have here given as preparatory to vvhat follovvs, and to pre-poſſeſs the Reader, 1. That a natural Indagation according to the light of natural Reaſon touching the Origination of ſuch a Creature as this, is no contemptible or unvvorthy enquiry.a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “Touching the Excellency of the Humane Nature in General”, in The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature...
  2. The determination of the condition of the genital parts at the termination of the puerperium preliminary to the discharge of the patient.

Forms of indagation

pluralindagations

Origin of indagation

From Latin indāgātiō, from indāgō (“to investigate”).

Questions about indagation

What does indagation mean?
Indagation means inquiry, investigation.
What part of speech is indagation?
Indagation is a noun.
What is the plural of indagation?
The plural of indagation is indagations.

Words near indagation in the dictionary

  1. indacrinone
  2. indagate
  3. indagated
  4. indagates
  5. indagating
  6. indagation
  7. indagations
  8. indagative
  9. indagator
  10. indagators
  11. indagatory

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