Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-QUI'RY, n. [Norm. enquerre, from querer, to inquire.]

1. The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation. The men who were sent from Cornelius, had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate. Acts x.
2. Search for truth, information or knowledge; research; examination into facts or principles by proposing and discussing questions, by solving problems, by experiments or other modes; as, physical inquiries; inquiries about philosophical knowledge. Locke. The first inquiry of a rational being should be, who made me? the second, why was I made? who is my Creator, and what is his will? Anon.