We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
enquester (s.xiiiex)
Cite this entry

enquester (s.xiiiex)

Cite this entry
 
  FEW:  inquirere 4,707b Gdf:  inquester 4,588c GdfC:  enquester 9,474a TL: enquester 3,487 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  enquêter  / inquester  TLF:  enquêter  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to search, examine: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  par ces cinc choses [...] si vus avez la en queste (l. enquesté) diligeaument porrez vus venir au nombre de voz pecchez certeinement  Ancren2 103.1
♦to question, interrogate: 
( 1328 )  que nos fraunks hommes ne fussent enjurees ne enquestés en cell court  Corr Lond 354
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
enquester