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What (who) is INQUIRE - definition
BOOK BY ROBERT KEMP PHILP
Enquire Within About Everything; Enquire Within Upon Everything; Enquire Within; Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know; Inquire Within
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Inquire
·vt To call or name.
II. Inquire ·vi To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.
III. Inquire ·vt To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting.
IV. Inquire ·vi To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination.
inquire
also enquire
(inquires, inquiring, inquired)
1.
If you inquire about something, you ask for information about it. (FORMAL)
'Is something wrong?' he enquired...
'Who are you?' he enquired of the first man...
I rang up to inquire about train times...
He inquired whether there had been any messages for him...
He was so impressed that he inquired the young shepherd's name.
VERB: V with quote, V of n with quote, V about n, V wh, V n, also V for n, V of n wh, V
2.
If you inquire into something, you investigate it carefully.
Inspectors were appointed to inquire into the affairs of the company.
VERB: V into n/wh
Wikipedia
Enquire Within upon Everything
Enquire Within upon Everything is a how-to book, akin to a short encyclopedia for domestic life, first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London. The editor was Robert Kemp Philp. It was then continuously reprinted in many new and updated editions as additional information and articles were added (and obsolete material sometimes removed).
Examples of use of INQUIRE
1. Did my fellow learners see it, I inquire eagerly?
2. She called her pharmacist to inquire about her symptom.
3. He continued to inquire after her and send her gifts.
4. All of them understand the need to ask and inquire.
5. Sixty to 75 people inquire about conversion a year.