All 6 Uses of
inquest
in
Dracula
- It is needless to say that the dead steersman has been reverently removed from the place where he held his honourable watch and ward till death, a steadfastness as noble as that of the young Casabianca, and placed in the mortuary to await inquest.
p. 90.7inquest = formal investigation into a death
- The greatest interest, however, is with regard to the paper found in the bottle, which was today produced at the inquest.
p. 91.8
- If we do not act properly and wisely, there may be an inquest, and that paper would have to be produced.
p. 161.3 *
- I am in hopes that we need have no inquest, for if we had it would surely kill poor Lucy, if nothing else did.
p. 161.4
- The question of an inquest had to be considered, and it would never do to put forward the truth, as no one would believe it.
p. 309.2
- In case the coroner should demand it, there would be a formal inquest, necessarily to the same result.
p. 309.3inquest = investigation of a death
Definition:
a formal inquiry or investigation -- typically into the cause of an undesirable event -- often an investigation of an unexpected death