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Q0027300 (kwĕst)n.1. The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.2. An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat: the quest for the Holy Grail.3. Archaic a. An inquest.b. A jury appointed to take part in an inquest.v.intr. quest·ed, quest·ing, quests 1. To search for something: quested for knowledge.2. To go on a quest.3. To search for game or bay when sighting game, as a hound.
[Middle English queste, from Old French, ultimately from Latin quaesta, from feminine of *quaestus, obsolete past participle of quaerere, to seek.]
quest′er n.
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