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| − | + | * '''quest:''' in Egyptian mythology, when Set murders Osiris, he dismembers his body and scatters the parts across the land; Osiris's wife and sister Isis goes in quest of them so that she can resurrect Osiris | |
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| + | * '''quest''' → the quest of this body to find its own toes points to its lack of feeling – because it is either asleep or dead | ||
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| + | * '''in quest''' → '''inquest''', a judicial inquiry held to establish the cause and circumstances of someone's death | ||
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| + | * '''quest:''' an expedition in search of some definite object, especially used in medieval romances for religious expeditions in search of the Holy Grail | ||
Latest revision as of 02:04, 27 October 2010
- quest: in Egyptian mythology, when Set murders Osiris, he dismembers his body and scatters the parts across the land; Osiris's wife and sister Isis goes in quest of them so that she can resurrect Osiris
- quest → the quest of this body to find its own toes points to its lack of feeling – because it is either asleep or dead
- in quest → inquest, a judicial inquiry held to establish the cause and circumstances of someone's death
- quest: an expedition in search of some definite object, especially used in medieval romances for religious expeditions in search of the Holy Grail
