INQUEST
\ˈɪnkwɛst], \ˈɪnkwɛst], \ˈɪ_n_k_w_ɛ_s_t]\
Definitions of INQUEST
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- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.
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The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.
By Oddity Software
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A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.
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The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.
By Noah Webster.
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An official inquiry with the aid of a jury into the cause of a sudden death; inquiry; the body of men making such an inquiry.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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Act of inquiring: search: judicial inquiry: a jury for inquiring into any matter, esp. any case of violent or sudden death.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A judicial inquiry or examination; a jury empanelled to inquire into a sudden death, or concerning a fire.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The inquiry by a jury or commission into the facts of a case, civil or criminal, or into an individual's mental condition or the cause of his death. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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