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English
Etymology
From Middle English enserchen, from Old French encerchier. See search.
Verb
ensearch (third-person singular simple present ensearches, present participle ensearching, simple past and past participle ensearched)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To search; to try to find something.
- (obsolete, transitive) To search for; to seek.
1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Irelande ”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande , volume I, London: for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, folio 1, verso, column 1:Yet as naked as at the firſt bluſh it [the work] ſeemeth, if it ſhall ſtande wyth your Honour his pleaſure (whome I take to be an experte Lapidarie) at vacant houres to inſearche it, you ſhall finde therein ſtones of ſuch eſtimatiõ, as are woorthy to be coucht in riche and precious collets.
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