To inquire: to search: to aske: to demaund: to make sngnisition. Mibil de alieno inquirere. Cicer. Not to be busie to inquire of an other mans matter. In quirere, quod insormationem sacere dicunt, & serè acculatiuo iungitur cum præpositione IN. Ci. To make examination or inquisition against one. Dum in istum inquiro. While I made inquisition againste him. Qnnm ego diem in Siciliam inquirendi perexiguã postulauissem. Ci. When I required a very short day to make inquisition of the matter in Stcilie. In eum quid agat, quemadmodum viuat, inquiritur. Cic. Men aske or inquire what he doth, how he leade his life. Fama totum inquirit in orbern. Ouid. Inquirere in patrimonium & vasa. Sen. To aske what lands or plate on hath. Inquirere vitia. Cic. To make inquisition of ones vices.

I. Lit.: vera illa honestas, quam natura maxime inquirit, Cic. Tusc. 3, 2, 3: omnia ordine, Liv. 22, 7, 11: sedes, Just. 3, 4: inquire in ea quae memoriae sunt prodita, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 4: de opere, Quint. 3, 11, 21: verborum originem, id. 1, 6, 28: aliquibus inquirenda quaedam mandare, id. 10, 1, 128: vitia (alicujus), Hor. S. 1, 3, 28: quid sit furere, id. ib. 2, 3, 41.—

II. Trop.

A. Jurid., to search for grounds of accusation against one: cum ego diem inquirendi in Siciliam perexiguam postulavissem, Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 6: in competitores, id. Mur. 21: de rebus capitalibus, Curt. 6, 8, 17: inquisitum missi de iis, quorum, etc., Liv. 40, 20, 3.—

B. To search, pry, examine, or inquire into any thing: si quis habet causam celebritatis, in eum quid agat inquiritur, etc., Cic. de Off. 2, 13, 44: nimium inquirens in se, atque ipse sese observans, Cic. Brut. 82, 283: filius ante diem patrios inquirit in annos, to inquire how long his father will live, Ov. M. 1, 148: totum in orbem, id. ib. 12, 63: obstitit oceanus in se simul et in Herculem inquiri, Tac. G. 34.— Hence, inquīsītus, a, um, P. a., searched into or for: res, Liv. 10, 40, 10: corpus magna cum cura inquisitum, searched for, id. 22, 7, 5: istanc rem inquisitam certumst non amittere, not to neglect inquiry, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 217.— Hence, adv.: inquīsītē, with investigation, thoroughly, Gell. 1, 3, 9; comp., id. 1, 3, 21.