Inquest

1. n. The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.
2. n. Inquiry; quest; search.
3. n. Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a jury; as, a coroner’s inquest in case of a sudden death.
4. n. A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner’s jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.