To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
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The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
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To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
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An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…
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To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to stud…
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To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.
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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…
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See Inquire.
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To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.
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To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.
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To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.
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A thin, soft kind of muslin.
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A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
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To weigh.
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That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals…
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To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…
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To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.
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Sense; meaning; significance.
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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…
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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
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A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
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One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (…
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The quality or state of being uncertain.
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To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
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A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a q…
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See Inquire.
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To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection o…
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To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.
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To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body.
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A low shoe with a thin sole.
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A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
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That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…
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To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.
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To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.
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of Inquire
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To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.
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To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.
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The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
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The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
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A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
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A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
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That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…
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That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…
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To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the…
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State of being doubtful.
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State of being dubious.
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See Inquiry.
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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…
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The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
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To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.
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The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
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Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as, an interrogative sentence; an interrogative pronoun.
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A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interv…
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The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…
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To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.
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A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
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That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…
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To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.
Invite examination rather than direct rejection.
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