Lost Word Of The Day (32)

To quaeritate is a sign of a curious and enquiring mind. A 17th century verb, it was derived from the Latin verbs of quaeritare meaning to search and quaerere meaning to ask or enquire.

An example of its usage, cited by the Oxford English Dictionary, is to be found in Tomlinson’s Renou’s Disp from 1657; “Apothecaryes quaeritated its Medicinall use, which Mithradites knew”.

Who knew that, I quaeritated?