Definition of "inquire"

inquire

/ɪnˈkwaɪə/

verb
third-person singular simple present inquires, present participle inquiring, simple past and past participle inquired
1. (intransitive, US, Canada, Australia) To ask (about something).
  Quotations
  "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
2. (intransitive) To make an inquiry or an investigation.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To call; to name.
  Quotations
  Canute had his portion from the rest, The which he cald Canutium, for his hyre, Now Cantium, which Kent we commenly inquire.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 12