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Word: 'quest' • Extended Annotations



quest

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of quest

circa 1300, "an inquest, a judicial inquiry"
early 14th century, "a search for something, the act of seeking, pursuit" (especially in reference to hounds seeking game in the hunt)

from Medieval Latin questa "search, inquiry,"
alteration of Latin quaesitus, quaesita "sought-out, select"

quest noun
  • a jury of inquest
  • investigation
  • an act or instance of seeking: pursuit, search; a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey
  • obsolete: a person or group of persons who search or make inquiry
quest verb
  • of a dog:
    • to search a trail
    • bay (to bark with prolonged tones or to cry out, shout)
  • to go on a quest

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~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
classic definition
artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense

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