Part 730

Cease your quest of love.

Shak.

There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.

Milton.

2. Request; desire; solicitation.

Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion.

Herbert.

3. Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.

The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.

Shak.

4. Inquest; jury of inquest.

What lawful quest have given their verdict ?

Shak.

Quest, v. t. [Cf. OF. quester, F. quÍter. See Quest, n.] To search for; to examine. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Quest, v. i. To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg. [R.]

If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.

Macaulay.

Quest"ant (?), n. [OF. questant, F. quÍtant, p. pr.] One who undertakes a quest; a seeker. [Obs.] Shak.

Quest"er (?), n. One who seeks; a seeker. [Obs.]

Ques"tion (?), n. [F., fr. L. quaestio, fr. quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, ask, inquire. See Quest, n.] 1. The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

2. Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.

There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

John iii. 25.

It is to be to question, whether it be lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war simply for the propagation of the faith.

Bacon.

3. Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture. Blackstone.

He that was in question for the robbery. Shak. The Scottish privy council had power to put state prisoners to the question.

Macaulay.