inquirendon.
/ɪnkwʌɪˈrɛndəʊ/ Law.
1. (See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal power > [noun] > possession of legal authority to act > to institute inquiry
inquirendo1607
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Oo1v/2 Inquirendo, is an authoritie giuen to a person or persons, to inquire into some thing for the kings aduantage.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 324/2 Inquirendo, an authority given to some official person to institute an enquiry concerning the Crown's interests.
2. An investigation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > [noun] > instance of
inquisitionc1440
investigation1533
sight1592
review1611
percontation1623
evestigation1658
inquirendoa1846
shakedown1914
look-around1967
nosy1990
a1846 G. Darley in B. W. Procter Procter (1877) 286 Confound your prose lunatics who leave you no time for inquirendos upon poetic ones!
1897 L. I. Guiney (title) Patrins, to which is added an Inquirendo into the Wit and Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second.
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