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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To seek information by asking a question: inquired about prices.
  2. v. To make an inquiry or investigation: inquire into the extent of the corruption.
  3. v. To ask about.
  4. v. To ask: "I am free to inquire what a work of art means to me” ( Bernard Berenson). See Synonyms at ask.
  5. inquire after To ask about the health or condition of.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To search for; seek out; make investigation concerning.
  2. To ask about (a thing or person); seek knowledge of by asking.
  3. To call; name.
  4. To ask of; question.
  5. Synonyms Ask, Inquire, Question, etc. See ask.
  6. To seek for knowledge or information; make inquisition or investigation; use means for discovering or learning something.
  7. To ask for information; seek knowledge of something by asking a question or questions: as, I will inquire about it.
  8. n. Inquiry; search; investigation.

Wiktionary

  1. v. US To ask (about something).
  2. v. To make an inquiry or an investigation.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.
  2. v. To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knowledge; to make examination.
  3. v. To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting.
  4. v. obsolete To call or name.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. have a wish or desire to know something
  2. v. conduct an inquiry or investigation of
  3. v. inquire about

Etymologies

  1. From Latin inquīrō ("to seek for"). Displaced Middle English enqueren (from Old French enquerre, of the same source) and native Old English speir ("ask, inquire"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English enquiren, from Old French enquerre, from Vulgar Latin *inquaerere, alteration of Latin inquīrere : in-, into; see in-2 + quaerere, to seek. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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