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Quest   /kwɛst/   Listen
Quest

noun
1.
A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria.  Synonyms: pursuance, pursuit.  "Life is more than the pursuance of fame" , "A quest for wealth"
2.
The act of searching for something.  Synonym: seeking.
verb
1.
Make a search (for).  "The animal came questing through the forest"
2.
Search the trail of (game).
3.
Bark with prolonged noises, of dogs.  Synonym: bay.
4.
Seek alms, as for religious purposes.
5.
Express the need or desire for; ask for.  Synonyms: bespeak, call for, request.  "She called for room service"



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"Quest" Quotes from Famous Books



... pressed on. There were intervals of cleared spaces now and then. We climbed fences, jumped ditches and seemingly walked scores of miles, but still the flickering yellow light of that lantern led us remorselessly on. At last when it appeared as if our quest were interminable we surmounted a rail fence and found ourselves in ...
— John Henry Smith - A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life • Frederick Upham Adams
... with her weary, earnest voice. For a moment, it had seemed that all this frantic quest was nothing. That it would be far, far better to find a home with Nea and build a world of his own than to go ...
— Hunters Out of Space • Joseph Everidge Kelleam
... them, to be able to build a craft which would convey us to the coast of South America. He had persuaded the chiefs, that if they could have such a vessel as he described, they might not only overpower all the neighbouring tribes, but sail in quest of foreign lands, which they might conquer. The chiefs listened eagerly to this proposal, and promised to assist him in ...
— Charley Laurel - A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land • W. H. G. Kingston
... quest for the factors of organic evolution, obliged to fall back on the action of the physico-chemical forces such as light, or its absence, heat, cold, change of climate; and the physiological agencies of food, or in other words on changes in the ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
... yellow hen had been freed from the restraints of the coop, and by day had led her brood in adventurous quest of grasshoppers, and at sunset had conducted them to the waiting nest in the rear of the woodshed. But at the present moment, a peculiar scene was being enacted. At the open door of the woodshed, a sleepy brood huddled ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith


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