英语词汇“quest”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	quest
释义	quest I. \ˈkwest\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French queste, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin quaesta, from Latin quaesita, quaesta, feminine of quaesitus, quaestus past participle of quaerere to seek, ask 1. a. chiefly dialect : an official inquiry : inquest b. : a jury of inquest < what lawful quest have given their verdict up? — Shakespeare > c. : investigation < a long spiritual quest into the entire Spanish past — Bohdan Chudoba > < limitations set to the child's sex quest — Structure & Meaning of Psychoanalysis > 2. a. : the action or an act or instance of seeking: (1) : expedition, pursuit, venture < the quest for Neanderthal fossils — R.W.Murray > < all his work is a quest for values — C.J.Rolo > < our united quest of a just and lasting peace — D.D.Eisenhower > (2) : a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey b. (1) archaic : a search (as by hounds) for game (2) dialect : the baying of hounds in pursuit or barking on seeing game 3. obsolete : those who search or make inquiry < hath sent about three several quests to search you out — Shakespeare > 4. : collection of alms or donations especially for religious uses • - in quest of II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English questen, from Middle French quester, from queste *intransitive verb* 1. of a dog a. : to search a trail (as of game) < the dog after a little understood and quested — Robinson Jeffers > b. : to give tongue : bay < questing like a hound on a broken trail — Rudyard Kipling > 2. : to make a search : go in pursuit : go on a quest : seek, ask < still questing for sultry love and high adventure — Henry Cavendish > < this indolence of the body while the soul is questing — H.S.Canby > < questing ceaselessly for improvements — Newsweek > < giraffes come questing through the trees to take their turn to drink — Alan Moorehead > < things that die with their eyes open and questing — Ben Hecht > 3. : to seek alms especially for religious uses *transitive verb* 1. : to search for : examine, pursue < hounds … should spread to quest as individuals all the covert's fastnesses — E.G.W.W.Harrison > < baffled eyes questing more information — L.C.Douglas > 2. : to ask for : demand < questing … your prayers — Augusta Gregory >
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