insearch

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A form of ensearch — To search; to try to find something.

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Meanings

verbinsearch (third-person singular simple present insearches, present participle insearching, simple past and past participle insearched)

present singular third person insearches · participle present insearching · participle past insearched · past insearched

  1. alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of ensearch.

    Yet as naked as at the firſt bluſh it [the work] ſeemeth, if it ſhall ſtande wyth your Honour his pleaſure (whome I take to be an experte Lapidarie) at vacant houres to inſearche it, you ſhall finde therein ſtones of ſuch eſtimatiõ, as are woorthy to be coucht in riche and precious collets.

    1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “The Historie of Irelande […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, folio 1, verso, column 1
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APA

insearch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insearch

MLA

“insearch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insearch. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “insearch,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insearch.

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