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verb

Question v. t.

1.

To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.

2.

To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query. "And most we question what we most desire."

3.

To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to. "But have power and right to question thy bold entrance on this place."

4.

To talk to; to converse with. "With many holiday and lady terms he questioned me."

Synonyms: To ask; interrogate; catechise; doubt; controvert; dispute. Question, Inquire, Interrogate. To inquire is merely to ask for information, and implies no authority in the one who asks. To interrogate is to put repeated questions in a formal or systematic fashion to elicit some particular fact or facts. To question has a wider sense than to interrogate, and often implies an attitude of distrust or opposition on the part of the questioner.

Question v. i. (past & past part. questioned; pres. part. questioning)

1.

To ask questions; to inquire. "He that questioneth much shall learn much."

2.

To argue; to converse; to dispute. (Obs.) "I pray you, think you question with the Jew."

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"Questioning" Quotes from Famous Books

... so, and of at last setting straight the last threads of the tangled web she had woven. She felt that she would have told before about the essay if Netta had not been implicated, but her father had agreed that she could not in honour expose her schoolfellow. By skilful cross-questioning Miss Roscoe soon gathered ...

— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... owl. Perhaps the last greeting from the woods which the wayfarer will get as he leaves the diminishing red glow of the falling embers behind him and fares on under the keen, cold twinkle of the stars will be the questioning "who-who-whoo?" of the one of the big species of these birds, a barred owl or a great horned owl. More likely in our neighborhood it will be the gentle, quavering call of the little screech owl, a voice of friendliness out of the silence, dear to every true lover of the ...

— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard

... at her a moment, as if questioning both herself and the other, and finally handed the letter across with ...

— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson

... pleasure's lewdest voice Hawked in the market-place, and through the streets. Her story done, Veera entreated me To set my face for Mesched with the dawn. "Not yet," I said, "not yet." And then I made Strange passes with my hands, and braced my will, To sway her will; then with a questioning glance She passed out to a calm Mesmeric sleep. So, well I knew that I had found the soul My purpose needed, and I ...

— Stories in Verse • Henry Abbey

... to the favors of the great or to the clamors of the many, and his unquestioned spotless integrity. During a portion of his lengthened judicial career Lord Mansfield held a seat in the Cabinet, but nobody thought of questioning the purity of his judgments on that account. Toward the close of his judicial life Lord George Gordon was tried for Inciting the rioters who set fire to Lord Mansfield's house and destroyed his property. Lord Mansfield ...

— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various

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