enquire
Valid in Scrabble
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- 16
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Definition of enquire
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(British, English, alt-of)British English form of inquire.
“He enquired about the availability of rental bicycles in the town.”
“Having thus at length enquired the truth concerning Law and dispense.”
“Thus prompts his accents and his actions still, / And all obey and few enquire his will; / To such, brief answer and contemptuous eye / Convey reproof, nor further deign reply.”
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Etymology
From Old French enquerre, from en- + querre (“to search, to look for”), from Latin quaerere, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”).
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