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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
inquest .
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Examples
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How the queen desired to see Galahad; and how after, all the knights were replenished with the Holy Sangreal, and how they avowed the enquest of the same.
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Sangreal, and how they avowed the enquest of the same.
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How a damosel came into the court and desired a knight to take on him an enquest, which La Cote Male Taile emprised.
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How a damosel came into the court and desired a knight to take on him an enquest, which La Cote Male
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I perceive that good and ancient Poets have shunned the affectation and enquest, not only of fantasticall, new fangled, Spagniolized, and Petrarchisticall elevations, but also of more sweet and sparing inventions, which are the ornament of all the Poeticall workes of succeeding ages.
Of Bookes. 1909
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How a damosel came into the court and desired a knight to take on him an enquest, which La Cote Male Taile emprised.
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How a damosel came into the court and desired a knight to take on him an enquest, which La Cote Male Taile emprised Chap. ii.
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I perceive that good and ancient Poets have shunned the affectation and enquest, not only of fantasticall, new fangled, Spagniolized, and Petrarchisticall elevations, but also of more sweet and sparing inventions, which are the ornament of all the Poeticall workes of succeeding ages.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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How the queen desired to see Galahad; and how after, all the knights were replenished with the Holy Sangreal, and how they avowed the enquest of the same.
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How the queen desired to see Galahad; and how after, all the knights were replenished with the Holy Sangreal, and how they avowed the enquest of the same ....
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