inquest
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (obsolete) enquest
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English enquest, from Old French enqueste (Modern French enquête), from Vulgar Latin inquirere, or from Medieval Latin inquesta < in Latin quaesita.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɪŋkwɛst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]inquest (plural inquests)
- A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death
- 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 4, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
- The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.
- 2021 August 25, Christian Wolmar, “Croydon tram crash: the questions haven't been answered”, in RAIL, number 938, page 58:
- However, the 'accidental death' verdict of the jury in the inquest into the Croydon tram accident of November 2016 is the latest episode in a saga that seems likely to prevent the full story of this eminently preventable disaster from ever being exposed.
- An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome
- The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry
- (rare, obsolete) enquiry; quest; search
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- the laborious and vexatious inquest that the soul must make after science
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Hauing of late by diligent inquest,
Prouided him a sword of meanest sort
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[edit]investigation into the cause of a death
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jury hearing an inquest into the cause of death
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result of an inquest into the cause of death
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