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inquiry or enquiry Noun pl -ries 1. a question 2. an investigation
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inquiry or enquiry noun 2. investigation, hearing, study, review, search, survey, analysis, examination, probe, inspection, exploration, scrutiny, inquest noun 3. research, investigation, analysis, examination, inspection, exploration, scrutiny, interrogation Translations inquiry [ɪnˈkwaɪərɪ] inquire n → demande f de renseignements; (Law) → enquête f, investigation f; "inquiries" → "renseignements"; inquiry [ɪnˈkwaɪərɪ] inquire n → Untersuchung f; (question) → Anfrage f; to hold an inquiry into sth inquire → eine Untersuchung +gen durchführen inquiry [ɪnˈkwaɪərɪ] n → domanda; (LAW) → indagine f; investigazione f; to hold an inquiry into sth → fare un'inchiesta su qc How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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(acting in concert) decided on sending a commission of inquiry to Venice, 'for the purpose of obtaining further information. As, in an inquiry into every other subject, it is necessary to separate the different parts of which it is compounded, till we arrive at their first elements, which are the most minute parts thereof; so by the same proceeding we shall acquire a knowledge of the primary parts of a city and see wherein they differ from each other, and whether the rules of art will give us any assistance in examining into each of these things which are mentioned. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of Justice. |
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