Meanings
verbexquire (third-person singular simple present exquires, present participle exquiring, simple past and past participle exquired)
present singular third person exquires · participle present exquiring · participle past exquired · past exquired
- obsoleteTo search into or out.
How she came by it, yet is not exquir'd
1616–1618, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)1 more example
That cloſe and moſt inennerable Pander That paſſeth all our ſtudies to exquire
1603, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois
Origin
- Latinexquīrere
- Englishexquire
From Latin exquīrere. See exquisite.
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