quest

noun

/kwɛst/

Etymology

From Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).

derived from quaesta
derived from queste
derived from queste
inherited from quest

Definitions

1
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent)
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
- the hero's quest
- Cease your quest of love.
2
The act of seeking, or looking after anything
The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
- to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
3
A request
A request; a desire; a solicitation.
- Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
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1. 4
  A group of people conducting a search or inquiry.
  - The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
2. 5
  An inquest
  An inquest; a jury of inquest.
  - To 'cide this title is impanneled A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart, And by their verdict is determined The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part […]
3. To seek or pursue a goal
  To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
4. 7
  To search for something
  To search for something; to seek.
  - Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.
5. To locate and attach to a host animal.
6. 9
  A short test.
  - I had a calculus quest (not a quiz or a test, but somewhere in between...) it was on limits, and l'hopital's rule...
  - However took a quest, quiz/test combination that this math progrm^([sic]) uses, and got ten out of ten on it!
  - Quests, bigger than quizzes and smaller than tests, consist of around 10 questions worth 2 points each, designed to take about 30–40 minutes.
7. Acronym of quantized electronic structure.
8. A surname from German.

The neighborhood

Derived

FedEx quest, fetch quest, quester, questful, question, questless, questlike, questline, questman, questmonger, questward, second quest, sidequest, subquest, vision quest

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at quest. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at quest. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at quest

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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