quest

(kwĕst)

1. The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.

2. An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat: the quest for the Holy Grail.

3. Archaic

a. An inquest.

b. A jury appointed to take part in an inquest.

v.intr. quest·ed, quest·ing, quests

1. To search for something: quested for knowledge.

2. To go on a quest.

3. To search for game or bay when sighting game, as a hound.

[Middle English queste, from Old French, ultimately from Latin quaesta, from feminine of *quaestus, obsolete past participle of quaerere, to seek.]

quest′er n.

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Translations

questing

[ˈkwɛstɪŋ] adj [mind] → curieux/euse

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References in classic literature

Clean or tainted, hot or stale, Hold it as it were the Trail, Through the day and through the night, Questing neither left nor right.

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That questing, eternal, ever recurring, thin little wailing voice of man is still ringing in my ears.

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