enquester (s.xiiiex)

enquester (s.xiiiex)

  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.a.

1to 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  103.1
to question, interrogate
( 1328 )  que nos fraunks hommes ne fussent enjurees ne enquestés en cell court  354
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enquester