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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enquire
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brilliant/enquiring/logical etc mind
▪ a bright child with an enquiring mind
apply/enquire within (=used on notices on the outside of buildings)
▪ Baby rabbits for sale. Enquire within.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ Wherever you spend your time, the most important thing to enquire about is the prospect of obtaining a seat after pupillage.
▪ These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about.
▪ Her age was something, Lucy quickly deduced, that one could not enquire about and expect to survive.
▪ Meticulously she enquired about my health, and we discussed the weather, and a small item of politics.
▪ As long as there were people to greet, families to enquire about, matters to discuss she was happy.
how
▪ It may be necessary to enquire how far her lust was excited, or if she experienced any enjoyment.
▪ Roman hadn't even enquired how she was - their lovemaking had already vanished into limbo as far as he was concerned.
▪ The four wrote to enquire how they could best put forward their views inside the Labour Party.
▪ But when the therapist starts to enquire how they react to the problems at home a difference in opinion may be revealed.
▪ Meanwhile, may I enquire how the commission would go about its task?
▪ Following the usual exchanges I enquired how long they'd been there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Head whirling, she went into a travel agency and enquired the air fare to Toronto.
▪ I remember asking my private secretary to enquire what would be the main subjects of our discussion.
▪ Mr. Chapman enquired of the Board whether the paupers and children should be allowed to have money in the workhouse.
▪ Only after they were dead, it seemed, did the hierarchy begin to enquire into performance.
▪ People enquired but there was no trace of it.
▪ She was a little distracted when Sophie asked permission for her outing, or she might have enquired more closely into the details.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
enquire

Inquire \In*quire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inquired; p. pr. & vb. n. Inquiring.] [OE. enqueren, inqueren, OF. enquerre, F. enqu['e]rir, L. inquirere, inquisitum; pref. in- in + quarere to seek. See Quest a seeking, and cf. Inquiry.]

  1. To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.

    We will call the damsel, and inquire.
    --Gen. xxiv. 57.

    Then David inquired of the Lord yet again. And the Lord answered him.
    --1 Sam. xxiii. 4.

  2. To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knowledge; to make examination.

    And inquire Gladly into the ways of God with man.
    --Miltom.

    Note: This word is followed by of before the person asked; as, to inquire of a neighbor. It is followed by concerning, after, or about, before the subject of inquiry; as, his friends inquired about or concerning his welfare. ``Thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.''
    --Eccl. vii. 10. It is followed by into when search is made for particular knowledge or information; as, to inquire into the cause of a sudden death. It is followed by for or after when a place or person is sought, or something is missing. ``Inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus.''
    --Acts ix. 11.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enquire

alternative form of inquire, according to OED mainly used in sense of "to ask a question." Related: enquired; enquiring.

Wiktionary
enquire

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make an enquiry. 2 (context transitive archaic English) To ask about (something).

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WordNet
enquire

  1. v. inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times" [syn: ask, inquire]

  2. conduct an inquiry or investigation of; "The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities"; "inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady" [syn: investigate, inquire]

  3. have a wish or desire to know something; "He wondered who had built this beautiful church" [syn: wonder, inquire]

Wikipedia
Enquire

Enquire and similar may mean:

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Usage examples of "enquire".

Professor Pearson has omitted to enquire in a single case whether the alcoholism or the offspring came first.

My excellent appetite astonished him, and he enquired whether I had dined.

During this time she was visited by physicians, attended by nurses, and received constant messages from her acquaintance to enquire after her health.

I did so I should have little liberty left me, I began by enquiring after all my old friends.

The aunt came to me as I was going out of the house, and after enquiring if I were satisfied begged me to come into the parlour.

My new mistress, after giving me an account of her health, requested me to enquire from my jeweller whether he had not by chance made a ring having on its bezel a St.

I could no longer resist the effect made upon my senses by this beautiful girl, who, at the break of day and scarcely dressed, ran gaily into my room, came to my bed enquiring how I had slept, bent familiarly her head towards me, and, so to speak, dropped her words on my lips.

A sailor, expecting to find in me a generous customer, came to enquire where my trunk was, and, hearing from me that I did not know, he, as well as Captain Alban, went to a great deal of trouble to find it, and I could hardly keep down my merriment when the captain called, begging to be excused for having left it behind, and assuring me that he would take care to forward it to me in less than three weeks.

An hour afterwards I had a delicious fish supper, and, before I retired to bed, a servant came to enquire whether I would take chocolate in the morning before or after mass.

While I was waiting for him, Marina came in with a dejected countenance, enquiring how she had deserved my contempt.

But at that very moment, a fine-looking elderly woman came out of a thicket, pronounced my name, and enquired what I wanted and how I had seen her.

I was gaping in the air and listlessly looking round, when a gentleman, splendidly dressed, and three times stouter than I, came up and enquired whether I was a foreigner.

A woman, blind of one eye, about forty years old, but with a remnant of beauty, came up, saluted us politely, and enquired whether we wished to have dinner.

The hostess came up to enquire whether we wanted anything, and she asked if we were not going to the opera, which everybody said was so beautiful.