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Inquisitional All the inquisitional rigor . . . executed upon books.Milton. Inquisitionary Inquisitive A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent.Broome. A young, inquisitive, and sprightly genius.I. Watts. Syn. Inquiring; prying; curious; meddling; intrusive. - - Inquisitive, Curious, Prying. Curious denotes a feeling, and inquisitive a habit. We are curious when we desire to learn something new; we are inquisitive when we set ourselves to gain it by inquiry or research. Prying implies inquisitiveness, and is more commonly used in a bad sense, as indicating a desire to penetrate into the secrets of others. [We] curious are to hear,Milton. This folio of four pages [a newspaper], happy work!Cowper. Nor need we with a prying eye surveyCreech. Inquisitive Inquisitively The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic.Boyle. Inquisitiveness Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window.Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove that ignorance they were born with; which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull.Locke. Inquisitor Inquisitorial |
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