What does "quest" mean?
Quest: Request; desire; solicitation. Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. Herbert.
Additional senses
- 2.Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively. The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out. Shak.
- 3.Inquest; jury of inquest. What lawful quest have given their verdict Shak.
- 4.To search for; to examine. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.
- 5.To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg. [R.] If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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