Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of disquisition.
- Inclined to discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; examining; inquisitive.
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- adjective Relating to
disquisition ; fond ofdiscussion orinvestigation ;inquisitive .
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Examples
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Sara, my babe, my own shaping and disquisitive mind, my books, my beloved friend Thomas Poole, and lastly, Nature looking at me with a thousand looks of beauty, and speaking to me in a thousand melodies of love.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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"So Nora thought no more av it, but whin they wint on an’ on, widout shtoppin’ at all, she begun to be disquisitive agin.
Irish Wonders 1878
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