disquisitedisquisitv.
rare.
intransitive. To make a disquisition.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > investigate, inspect [verb (intransitive)]
inquirec1330
aska1382
ensearch1382
questiona1500
investigate?1520
vestigatea1561
to look into ——1561
perpend1568
mouse1575
rake1603
undergo1605
fathom1607
ravel1618
examine1628
inquisition1644
to cast abouta1676
inspect1703
sound1793
disquisitea1823
look-see1862
to cast about one1867
a1823 A. Radcliffe in New Monthly Mag. (1826) 16 148 The same Creative Power..by which alone we ourselves at this moment breathe, think, or disquisite at all.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 274 Here I would fain disquisit on Pike.
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