inquest

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  1. noun Law A judicial inquiry into a matter usually held before a jury, especially an inquiry into the cause of a death.
  2. noun Law A jury making such an inquiry.
  3. noun Law The finding based on such an inquiry.
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  • He himself, he had informed Clothilde on the telephone, would return home as soon as the inquest was over, unless there seemed to be any reason for going back to Great Skua and his children. —  The Murder of Busy Lizzie - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 46: 1973
  • I suppose she, like the rest of them, got scared when the inquest was adjourned. —  Death of a Burrowing Mole - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 62
  • "I sent her back to the office as soon as the inquest was adjourned." —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Murder at Bridge, by Anne Austin
  • She thought I should have to stay for the inquest, and that she would appreciate my presence at the funeral. —  The Chinese Shawl - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 05
  • As soon as the inquest was over you would have claimed my body, found the pieces of paper, and then you would have buried me at Darnall This statement of Peace is no doubt in the main correct. —  A Book of Remarkable Criminals
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  1. Middle English enqueste, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *inquaesīta, thing inquired into, alteration of Latin inquīsīta, feminine past participle of inquīrere, to inquire into; see inquire.

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  1. Early modern English also inquist; from Middle English enquest, enqueste, from Old French enqueste, French enquête = Provencal enquesta = Italian inchiesta, inquiry, from Latin inquisita, Middle Latin inquista (sc. res), a thing inquired into, an inquiry, properly feminine of inquisitus, inquistus, past participle of inquirere, inquire into: see inquire. Cf. quest.
 

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