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Definition: Inquest |
InquestNoun1. An inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inquest" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of an inquest, foretells you will be unfortunate in your friendships. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An inquest is a formal process od state investigation. A common type inquest is a medical examination any cause of death under suspicious circumstances. Larger inquests can be held into disasters, or into cases of corruption.
Inquests in Jurisdictions based on British laws
In jurisdictions with British-based legal systems, the process is the responsibility of a special non-criminal court called the Coroner's Court under the supervision of the Coroner.
Individuals with an interest in the proceedings, such as relatives of the deceased, individuals appearing as witnesses, and organisations or individuals who may face some responsibility in the death of the individual, may be represented by lawyers at the discretion of the coroner. Witnesses may be compelled to testify subject of a protection against self-incimination.
Some inquests take place before a jury.
At the conclusion of the inquest, the jury (or coroner) considers the facts of the death and return a finding representing their opinion of the reasons for the death. This may include recommendations that individuals or organisations are in some way responsible for the death. If so, a finding may recommend that those entities face criminal charges. The finding may state that it is believed that a death was accidental. Often, no conclusion can be reached about the reason for a death, and an open finding is returned. Findings may also contain recommendations for changes to the practices of governments or organisations on how to avoid such deaths in the future, if the inquest reveals that such changes are desirable.
If an open finding is returned, the inquest can be reopened if new evidence is found and presented to the coroner.
The qualifications required of coroners varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Originally, coroners did not always have legal training. This has led to concerns that, particularly in cases where a real suspicion of foul play exists and where coroners must correctly instruct juries as to the relevant law, that incorrect findings were too common. Consequently, some jurisdictions have modified their laws to require coroners to have studied and practised law.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Inquest."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inquiry | Examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation; perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation; inquest, inquisition; exploration; exploitation, ventilation. |
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Crosswords: Inquest |
| English words defined with "inquest": coroner, Coroner's inquest ♦ grand jury ♦ Inquirable ♦ Jury of inquest ♦ medical examiner. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Inquest (1939) Da Vinci's Inquest (1998) The Biko Inquest (1984) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A Coroner's Inquest. / F. del. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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William Congreve | They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | All evil customs connected with forests and warrens, foresters and warreners, sheriffs and their officers, river banks and their wardens, shall immediately by inquired into in each county by twelve sworn knights of the same county chosen by the honest men of the same county, and shall, within forty days of the said inquest, be utterly abolished, so as never to be restored, provided always that we previously have intimation thereof, or our justiciar, if we should not be in England. (reference) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But, as for me, I come to the inquest with other senses than they possess |
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Human Rights | Guyana | In March the inquest was postponed due to problems in jury member attendance. (references) |
Canada | A coroner's inquest into the second victim's death was scheduled for January 2002. (references) | |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | An inquest determined that one of the two policemen was liable for unlawful killing. (references) | |
Political Economy | Gambia | The Government established a commission to examine the findings of a coroner's inquest into killings of 14 persons by security forces in April 2000; however, the Government rejected the commission's findings and decided that no one would be prosecuted. (references) |
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| "Inquest" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inquest" is used about 899 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 899 | 7,952 |
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Expressions using "inquest": coroner's inquest ♦ grand inquest ♦ hold an inquest ♦ Inquest of office ♦ Jury of inquest ♦ the grand inquest of the nation ♦ the last inquest. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inquest | 95 |
inquest magazine | 81 |
inquest gamer | 28 |
davincis inquest | 11 |
da inquest vincis | 9 |
inquest gamer magazine | 5 |
inc inquest | 5 |
inquest magic | 5 |
inquest ministry | 4 |
coroners inquest | 4 |
inc.com inquest | 4 |
gathering inquest magic | 3 |
gaming inquest magazine | 3 |
guide inquest price | 2 |
game inquest | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "inquest"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | juri (jury, petty jury), hetim gjyqësor (inquisition). (various references) | |
Arabic | تحقيق (ascertainment, come true, consummation, enquiry, exploration, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementing, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, probe, probing, quest, realization, survey, verification), إستنطاق (examination, interrogation), إستجواب (examination, inquiry, interrogation, interrogatory, investigation, probe, question), بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, look for, looking for, poke about, probe, prospection, pry, pursue, quest, research, retrieve, rummage, scrounge, scrutinize, search, see, see into, seek, seeking, sought, spy, study, talk over, think through, treatise, try, ventilate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съд (bar, bench, container, court, court of justice, court of law, judgement-seat, judicature, judiciary, jury, law, law court, receptacle, tribunal, utensil, vas, vessel), следствие (consequence, consequent, effect, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, outgrowth, product, quest), дознание. (various references) | |
Chinese | 审讯 (interrogation). (various references) | |
Czech | vyšetřování (inquiry, inquisition, investigation), pátrání (Hunt, investigation, quest, search). (various references) | |
Danish | sektionsstue (autopsy room, coroner's inquest suite), ligsynsvaerelse (autopsy room, coroner's inquest suite). (various references) | |
Dutch | sectiekamer (autopsy room, coroner's inquest suite), lijkschouwingsruimte (autopsy room, coroner's inquest suite), autopsiekamer (autopsy room, coroner's inquest suite). (various references) | |
Farsi | جستار (Inquiry, Query), رسیدگی (Assistance, Attendance, Audit, Consideration, Examination, Inquiry, Probe, Puberty, Scrutiny), بازجوءی (Crossquestion, Inquiry, Quest). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuolemansyyn tutkimus. (various references) | |
French | enquête (inquiry, investigation). (various references) | |
German | gerichtliche untersuchung. (various references) | |
Greek | ανάκριση περί θανάτου, ανάκριση (cross examination, exam, examination, hearing, inquiry, inquisition, interrogation, oyer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyomozás (detection, enquiry, investigation). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemeriksa. (various references) | |
Italian | istruttoria (injunction, interim order, preparatory inquiries, preparatory inquiry), inchiesta (inquiry, investigation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 検視 (autopsy, investigation of death), 検死 (autopsy, investigation of death), 検屍 (autopsy, investigation of death). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けんし (autopsy, cuspid, dogtooth, eyetooth, fencer, investigation of death, iron purpose, silk thread). (various references) | |
Korean | 검시. (various references) | |
Manx | bing vaaish. (various references) | |
Norwegian | likskue. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inquestay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inquérito (inquiry), sindicância (inquiry, investigation, probe, search), devassa, averiguação (ascertainment, inquiry, recognition). (various references) | |
Romanian | juriu (jury, Pais), judecatã (award, bar, decision, judgement, law, reason, Rede, sentence, trial, understanding, verdict, view, wisdom), anchetã (cross examination, examination, inquiry, investigation). (various references) | |
Russian | следствие (action, consequence, effect, inquiry, investigation, result, sequence), дознание (disquisition, quest). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | istraga (inquiry, inquisition, investigation, perquisition, probe, quest). (various references) | |
Spanish | pesquisa. (various references) | |
Swedish | utredning (investigation), undersökning (examination, investigation, inquiry, survey). (various references) | |
Thai | การสอบสวนคดี. (various references) | |
Turkish | tahkikat (examination, inquiry, investigations, question), soruşturma (checkback, disquisition, enquiry, examination, hearing, inquiries, inquiry, inquisition, inquisitional, inquisitorial, investigation, probe, quest, question, questionnaire, verification). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | склад присяжних, слідство (question). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cuộc điều tra chính thức. (various references) | |
Welsh | trengholiad (inquest of coroner). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | enqueste. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inquest": inquests. (additional references) | |
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"Inquest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anquet, equest, iniusta, Inqua, inquset, intust, inuest, inwquest, iquest, linquist, Oncques. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inquest" (pronounced i"nkwe'st) |
| 3 | -e' s t | alkahest, armrest, accessed, backrest, headrest, incest, manifest, protest, slugfest, unprocessed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: quintes. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-q-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: quiets, quinte, quints, sequin, squint, tenuis, unites, unties. | |
-2 letters: etuis, inset, neist, nites, quest, quiet, quins, quint, quite, quits, senti, stein, suint, suite, tines, tunes, unite, units, unset, untie. | |
-3 letters: etui, nest, nets, nite, nits, nuts, quin, quit, sent, sine, site, snit, stun, suet, suit, tens, ties, tine, tins, tuis, tune, tuns, unit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-q-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: antiques, inquests, inquiets, questing, question, quietens, quintets, squinted, squinter, uniquest, unquiets. | |
+2 letters: antiquers, equations, quaintest, quantiles, quantizes, questions, quiescent, quietness, quintiles, quitrents, quotients, squinters, squintest, squintier. | |
+3 letters: antiquates, equestrian, equinities, equipments, inequities, iniquities, liquescent, quaintness, quantifies, quantities, quantizers, queenliest, quercetins, questioned, questioner, quintettes, quintuples, quittances, requesting, sequential, squinniest, squintiest, techniques, unquietest. | |
+4 letters: acquiescent, antiquaries, antiquities, aquatinters, delinquents, disquieting, equestrians, equidistant, equitations, equivalents, gigantesque, inquietudes, inquisitive, netiquettes, piquantness, quantifiers, quantitates, quarantines, quarterings, quaternions, quercitrons, questionary, questioners, questioning, quiescently, quietnesses, quintuplets, reacquaints, requisition, squattering, tourniquets, tranquilest, unquietness. | |
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