Enquired vs Esquired - What's the difference?
enquired | esquired |
(enquire)
To make an enquiry.
(archaic) To ask about (something).
* (rfdate) (John Milton)
* (rfdate) (Byron)
(dated) Using the title or honorific of esquire.
* 1822 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Volume 12,
* 1824 , , Canto the Sixteenth, LXIX,
(esquire)
As verbs the difference between enquired and esquired
is that enquired is past tense of enquire while esquired is past tense of esquire.As an adjective esquired is
using the title or honorific of esquire.enquired
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Verb
(head)enquire
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Alternative forms
* inquire (chiefly US)Verb
(enquir)- He enquired about the availability of rental bicycles in the town.
- ''Having thus at length enquired the truth concerning Law and dispense.
- And all obey and few enquire his will.
Usage notes
(unreferenced) In the USA, inquire' is generally used in place of '''enquire'''. Where '''enquire''' is used (particularly in the UK), it means a non-official enquiry (such as to ask a question), whereas '''inquire''' is used in legal or government context where official transcripts are generated. In the USA, this distinction is not made and ' inquire is used generally.esquired
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Adjective
(-)page 83,
- Here's to all the rest, both esquired and anonymous, / May they all in their times find their own Hieronymus ;
- All country gentlemen, esquired or knighted, / May drop in without cards, and take their station / At the full board, and sit alike delighted / With fashionable wines and conversation;
