exquire

English

Etymology

From Latin exquirere. See exquisite.

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To search into or out.
   • 1603, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois:

     That cloſe and moſt inennerable Pander
     That paſſeth all our ſtudies to exquire

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exquire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

exquīre

1. second-person singular present active imperative of exquīrō