Definition of investigate

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Investigate (v. t.) To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena..

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Requisitor :: Requisitor (n.) One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts..
Geometry :: Geometry (n.) That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space..
Reinvestigate :: Reinvestigate (v. t.) To investigate again.
Insearch :: Insearch (v. t.) To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.
Chorographer :: Chorographer (n.) A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.
Pervestigate :: Pervestigate (v. t.) To investigate thoroughly.
Try :: Try (v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal..
Curiosity :: Curiosity (n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness..
Climatology :: Climatology (n.) The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
Exarch :: Exarch (n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc..
Report :: Report (v. t.) To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress..
Evestigate :: Evestigate (v. t.) To investigate.
Ontology :: Ontology (n.) That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being..
Chronologer :: Chronologer (n.) A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology.
Etymologist :: Etymologist (n.) One who investigates the derivation of words.
Philosophize :: Philosophize (v. i.) To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence..
Genealogize :: Genealogize (v. i.) To investigate, or relate the history of, descents..
Excuss :: Excuss (v. t.) To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.
Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.
Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..
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