Definition of "enquiry" []

• Variant of inquiry. (noun)

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• "Of particular importance for our enquiry is the account of native history as Landa heard it directly from the lips of his Maya informants."
• "And therefore the first answer to their enquiry is a very sharp reproof of their hypocrisy, directed, not only to the people of the land, but to the priests, who had set up these fasts, and perhaps some of them were for keeping them up, to serve some purpose of their own."
• "Observe to whom this enquiry is addressed -- to God himself."