quir-, quisit-, quis-, que-, quer-, quest-, -quirement, -quirable, -quisition, -quisitive
(Latin: to ask, to seek)
inquisitive
1. Given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious; such as, an inquisitive mind.
2. Inclined to investigate so as to gain more knowledge.
3. Unduly or inappropriately curious; prying.
inquisitively
inquisitiveness
1. Eager for knowledge.
2. Too curious about other people’s business.
inquisitor
1. Someone who asks a succession of relentless and searching or hostile questions.
2. When capitalized, Inquisitor refers to someone who was an official working for the Roman Catholic Inquisition.
inquisitorial
1. Resembling a formal inquiry, especially in using rigorous or relentless questioning.
2. Used to describe a trial in which one person is both judge and prosecutor.
inquisitorially
Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homini libero dignius.
Of all the occupations in which gain is secured, none is better than agriculture, none more profitable, none more delightful, none more becoming to a freeman.
This motto, written by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), is also reproduced in a shorter version in the entrance foyer of the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture: Nihil melius nihil homine libero dignius, quam agricultura.
perquisite
prerequisite
1. Required beforehand, especially as a necessary condition for something that follows.
2. An object, quality, or condition that is required in order for something else to happen.
Quaere , invenire, vincere
To seek, to find, to defeat (conquer).
Quaere verum
Seek after truth.
queried
A question that has been made.
querist
query
1. A request for information.
2. A doubt or criticism.
queryingly
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