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noun

Quest n.

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." "Cease your quest of love." "There ended was his quest, there ceased his care."

Request; desire; solicitation. "Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion."

Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively. "The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out."

Inquest; jury of inquest. "What lawful quest have given their verdict?"

verb

Quest v. t. To search for; to examine. (R.)

Quest v. i. 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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Quest" Quotes from Famous Books

... noted excursion is to the crater of Papandajang. We departed on this quest, about five in the morning, driving eleven miles to the rest house at Tjiseroepan, where ponies and sedan chairs were furnished for the ascent, a distance of about six miles. Four of our party selected saddle horses, and four preferred sedan chairs (I took ...

— Travels in the Far East • Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

... makes a claim unknown to any other city of the earth save Rome. But there is a certain justification in lingering at points where women and children congregate, since their life also is part of the quest, and nowhere can it better be seen than in and about Covent Garden Market,—a thousand thoughts arising as the old square is ...

— Prisoners of Poverty Abroad • Helen Campbell

... the other colonel was for a while despaired of. It was in some senses the saddest disaster that had yet befallen the Guards' Brigade; and it was the outcome not of some decisive battle, but of a kindly quest for milk. ...

— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry

... parish the number of men, that it must furnish. The chiefs of the insurrection in each parish then point out the peasants, who are to go; and enjoin them, to be at such an hour, on such a day, at the place appointed for assembling. If they fail, armed bands are sent in quest of them, generally composed of the men most dreaded in the country: if they resist, they are threatened with being shot, or having their houses burnt; and as this is never an empty threat, the unhappy peasants ...

— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon

... afternoon Corporal Dobson and the half-breed set out again in quest of Falkner, and this time they were accompanied by Pierre Thoreau, who learned for the first time what had happened in his cabin. The doctor disappeared for the rest of the day, but early the next morning he hunted Phil up and took him to ...

— Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • James Oliver Curwood

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