inquest

inquest has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. Inquiry; quest; search.
• n.. Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death.
• n.. A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.
• n.. The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.
• n.. an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death