inquired

Verb

inquire (third-person singular simple present inquires, present participle inquiring, simple past and past participle inquired)

1. (Australia, Canada, US, ambitransitive, intransitive) To ask (about something).
   • May I inquire to whom I have the honor of speaking?
2. (ambitransitive, intransitive) To make an inquiry or an investigation.
   • Police are already inquiring into the incident.
3. (ambitransitive, obsolete, transitive) To call; to name.
   • Canute had his portion from the rest, The which he cald Canutium, for his hyre, Now Cantium, which Kent we commenly inquire.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 12