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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Quest

/kwĕst/ · IPA /kwɛst/
01 n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, o…
  1. 1.
    The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
    “Upon an hard adventure yet in quest.” — Spenser.
    “Cease your quest of love.” — Shak.
    “There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    Request; desire; solicitation.
    “Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion.” — Herbert.
  3. 3.
    Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
    “The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.” — Shak.
  4. 4.
    Inquest; jury of inquest.
    “What lawful quest have given their verdict ?” — Shak.
02 v. t. To search for; to examine.
  1. 1.
    To search for; to examine.[R.]
03 v. i. To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.
  1. 1.
    To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.[R.]
    “If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.” — Macaulay.