All 7 Uses of
inquire
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Certainly in every public work which in it anything of gravity contains preparation should be with importance commensurate and therefore a plan was by them adopted (whether by having preconsidered or as the maturation of experience it is difficult in being said which the discrepant opinions of subsequent inquirers are not up to the present congrued to render manifest) whereby maternity was so far from all accident possibility removed that whatever care the patient in that all hardest of woman hour chiefly required and not solely for the copiously opulent but also for her who not being sufficiently moneyed scarcely and often not even scarcely could subsist valiantly and for an inconsiderable†
Chpt 14
- The other problem raised by the same inquirer is scarcely less vital: infant mortality.†
Chpt 14 *inquirer = someone who is asking a question or looking for information
- he inquired generally.†
Chpt 16inquired = asked about or looked into
- Mr Bloom inquired.†
Chpt 16
- Also ran: J de Bremond's (French horse Bantam Lyons was anxiously inquiring after not in yet but expected any minute) Maximum II.†
Chpt 16inquiring = asking about or looking into
- He inquired if it was John Bull the political celebrity of that ilk, as it struck him, the two identical names, as a striking coincidence.†
Chpt 16inquired = asked about or looked into
- hadn't an idea about my mother till we were engaged otherwise hed never have got me so cheap as he did he was lo times worse himself anyhow begging me to give him a tiny bit cut off my drawers that was the evening coming along Kenilworth square he kissed me in the eye of my glove and I had to take it off asking me questions is it permitted to enquire the shape of my bedroom so I let him keep it as if I forgot it to think of me when I saw him slip it into his pocket of course hes mad on the subject of drawers thats plain to be seen always skeezing at those brazenfaced things on the bicycles with their skirts blowing up to their navels even when Milly and I were out with him at the open air†
Chpt 18enquire = ask about or look intounconventional spelling: This is the more common British spelling. Americans use inquire more commonly.
Definition:
to ask about or look into something