Quest

Definition of Quest

n.	1.	The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc. Upon an hard adventure yet in quest. - Spenser. Cease your quest of love. - Shak. There ended was his quest, there ceased his care. - Milton.
	2.	Request; desire; solicitation. Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. - Herbert.
	3.	Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively. The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out. - Shak.
	4.	Inquest; jury of inquest. What lawful quest have given their verdict ? - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To search for; to examine.
v. i.	1.	To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg. If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. - Macaulay.

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