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   Quest , n. [OF. queste, F. quête, fr. L. quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, to ask.  Cf. Query, Question.]
   The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
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   Upon an hard adventure yet in quest.
   Spenser.
   
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   Cease your quest of love.
   Shak.
   
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   There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.
   Milton.
   
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   Request; desire; solicitation.
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   Gad not abroad at every quest and call
   Of an untrained hope or passion.
   Herbert.
   
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   Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
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   The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
   Shak.
   
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   Inquest; jury of inquest.
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   What lawful quest have given their verdict ?
   Shak.
   
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   Quest, v. t. [Cf. OF. quester, F. quêter. See Quest, n.] To search for; to examine. [R.]
   Sir T. Herbert.  
   
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   Quest, v. i. To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg. [R.]
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   If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
   Macaulay.
   
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