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Definition of indagation in English: indagationnoun ɪndəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n mass nounrare Research or investigation. Example sentencesExamples - He mocked our most diligent and exquisite indagation.
- For the better indagation of the nature of the Holy Ghost, I shall proceed by certain steps and degrees; which as they will render the discourse more clear, so will they also make the arguments more evident.
- Paracelsus directs us, in the indagation of colours, to have an eye principally upon salts.
- I perceived that some insight into chemical operations was highly conducive to the true knowledge of nature, and especially to the indagation of several of her most abstruse mysteries
- This matter stands in need both of a higher indagation, and of a longer explication than is pertinent to the present inquisition.
Synonyms investigation, experimentation, testing, exploration, analysis, fact-finding, examination, scrutiny, scrutinization, probing
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin indagatio(n-), from indagare 'investigate'. |