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plural The smaller catechism. Also called question-book.
To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.
To debate; reason; consider.
To dispute; doubt.
To talk; converse.
To inquire of by asking questions; examine by interrogatories: as, to question a witness.
To doubt of; be uncertain of; mention or treat as doubtful or not to be trusted.
To call in question; challenge; take exception to: as, to question an exercise of prerogative.
Synonyms Ask, Inquire of, Interrogate, etc. (see ask), catechize.
To controvert, dispute.
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The act of interrogation; the putting of inquiries: as, to examine by question and answer.
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That which is asked; an inquiry; a query; the expression of a desire to know something indicated more or less definitely. ;
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Inquiry; disquisition; discussion.
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The subject or matter of examination or investigation; the theme of inquiry; a matter discussed or made the subject of disquisition.
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Dispute or subject of debate; a point of doubt or difficulty.
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Doubt; controversy; dispute: as, the story is true beyond all question.
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Judicial trial or inquiry; trial; examination.
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Examination by torture, or the application of torture to prisoners under criminal accusation in order to extort confession.
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Conversation; speech; talk.
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In logic, a proposition, or that which is to be established as a conclusion, stated by way of interrogation.
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In parliamentary usage: The point under discussion by the house; the measure to be voted on: as, to speak to the question.
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The putting of the matter discussed to a vote: as, are you ready for the question?
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To subject to judicial interrogation.
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4 and Proposition, motion, topic, point.