Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To investigate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To investigate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
investigate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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U has to hurl in teh middlol of teh night, then make a noize that teh hoomin must get up outta bed to go vestigate.
Dear Cheeseburger Jerks, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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GORD THE ROGUE vestigate. hearts in their throats and weapons in hands.
Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987
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There's Mr Trout-and-Salmon Preddle at one handle, and the doctor at t'other, with Mr Brymer to relieve while we're off dooty to go and 'vestigate the wittling department.
Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea George Manville Fenn 1870
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Seasonal changes, vestigate the problem. production shifts and time-of-day require ments should all be considered.
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In 1 8O9, his Royal Highness was accused of corruption in the administration of his office as Commander in ChieFj for which purpose a motion was made in the House of Commons by Mr. Wardle, on January 27th, "that a committee be appointed to in - vestigate the conduct of the Commander in Chief with respect to promotions," &c.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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Blinded with political pre - judices, he seemed more anxious to turn the fic - tions of his predecessors to his own purposes, than to detect their misrepresentations, or in - vestigate truth amidst the darkness which they had thrown round it.
The poems of Ossian Singleton, Henry, 1766-1839 1812
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In I8O9, his Royal Highness was accused of corruption in the administration of his office as Commander in Chief, for which purpose a motion was made in the House of Commons by Mr. Wardle, on January 27th, "that a committee be appointed to in - vestigate the conduct of the Commander in Chief with respect to promotions," &c.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical Collins, Arthur, 1690?-1760 1812
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I can write in favour of what I think right; I cah in - vestigate with freedom whatever appears to me t© be wrong.
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When I survey the animal Man, analyze his passions, and in - vestigate his views; Take a retrospect of his progressions through the various stages of society, and his blind impulses to pursue the present enjoyment to the exclusion of future good, I tremble at the present awful crisis.
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Springfield, city of, certain property owned and used by, in town of Russell, taxation of, special commission to in - vestigate as to, to be member of ...
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