percontari

percontari, 1 percunctari [CL], percontare, percunctare [LL] 1 to sound out, investigate, examine, seek after; b (w. indir. qu.); c (w. ref. to fishing). imas / percontare [gl.: interrogare] volens nevo sine criminis iras Frith. 620; exprimat proprios sententiarum affectus modo simpliciter indicantis ‥ modo miserantis, modo percunctantis, modo voce interrogantis Rob. Bridl. Dial. 108.  b quibus sanctorum operum meritis ‥ accendi valeret, studiose percunctari [AS: gl.: asmeagian] sollicitus coepit RegulC 1.  c to proule for fish, ~ari Levins Manip. 218. 2 to investigate by asking, inquire, ask a question; b (w. indir. qu.); c (as true pass.). percunctor, -aris, i. interrogare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 135; percuntari desinas Liv. Op. 8.  b forte quilibet ‥ perquirat et ~etur cur septinariae supputationis calculus ‥ septuplo perplexa revolutione replicetur Aldh. Met. 4; regi ‥ percunctanti quis esset, Samson respondit Ord. Vit. IV 11 p. 249; utrum illam sibi pertranseuntem vidisset percunctabatur R. Cold. Godr. 133; hanc quum parentes ad sanctum Macarium duxissent, et ille quid vellent ~aretur, dixerunt, ‘equa hec ‥ filia nostra fuit’ Alb. Lond. DG 4. 7; percunctatur ubinam posset nocte illa congruentius inter vicinos hospitari Coggesh. Visio 5.  c percunctatus quid ita vultuosus adventaret ‥ inquit ‥ W. Malm. GR III 204. 3 to ask (someone): a (acc. foll. by indir. qu.); b (acc. foll. by super & acc. or de & abl.); c (ad & acc. foll. by de & abl; d (ab & abl.). a princeps ‥ percunctatur [gl.: scisatabatur, interrogavit, befran] ‥ praesulem utrum filii sui veraciter essent Aldh. VirgP 33; abbas advocatum militem an sane mentis sit percunctatur Gosc. Transl. Mild. 19; redeuntes percunctatur Haroldus quid rerum apportent W. Malm. GR III 239; s964 hominem percunctatus quid sub involucro ferret Torigni Access. Sig. 16.  b consequenter eum de eodem regno ~antur, utrum videlicet ‥ in praesenti restituendum an in futuro sanctis reservandum credere debeant Bede Acts 941; 798 Aegyptiacum puerum percunctare de minutandis ‥ supputationibus Alcuin Ep. 149; cum ‥ nec amplius super hoc sermone iste eum percunctari auderet Ad. Eyns. Hug. V 18; uni eorum de hoc eum ~anti serio sic dicebat V. Edm. Rich P 1788C; ita se super hoc ~antibus respondebat Ib. 1799B.  c at illi de puero ad pueros diligenter percunctabantur et cunctantes matrem si patrem haberet Nen. HB 183.  d cum ingenti dolare quid filie sue acciderat a viro Dei percunctantur Medit. Farne 44v.. 4 to inquire about, ask something (w. acc.); b (foll. by ab & abl. of person). percunctatur ardenter nomina gentis provinciae ac regis illorum Gosc. Aug. Maj. 52; causam ‥ commotionis percunctatus, responsum accepit W. Malm. GR III 264.  b plura ab eo percunctari non audebat R. Cold. Cuthb. 38.