Indagation

Origin

From Latin indāgātionem, from indāgāre.

Full definition of indagation

Noun

1. (obsolete) Investigation, inquiry.
• 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10:Part hereof hath been discovered by himself, and some by humane indagation: which though magnified as fresh inventions unto us, are stale unto his cognition.