- Inquiry; quest; search. - Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a
jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death. - A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire
into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or
sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is
sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand. - The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.
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