1 vestigare
[CL], to track, seek (also in fig. context). b to seek to find out, know, or understand, investigate.
malens utique suas margaritas a filiis clausas fructuoso sudore ~ari quam profusas a porcis fastidiosa despectione calcari
[Bede TR 9]; liceat scienti ad metas prescriptas semitas etiam non prescriptas interdum ~are
[Balsh. AD rec. 2 124]; illic quoque per cancellos, ut valet, et rimulas dilectum suum sponsa rimatur nardique sue odore ~at
[J. Ford Serm. 48. 9]; odorandi quippe sponsi sui sagacitate prepollens, quocumque ierit ille, ~are eum ‥ non moratur
[Ib. 77. 6]. b omnia quae in sacris litteris ~antur
[Lanfr. Corp. & Sang. 417B]; a1087 quales ipsi ‥ in sui ordinis scientia sint pastorali auctoritate ~are debemus
[Id. Ep. 27 (30)]; ilen ‥ / ‥ / quam dum vestigat ratio, quasi somnia sentit
[J. Sal. Enth. Phil. 947]; duce Spiritu Sancto ~are curemus quid ‥ sorori sue angeli sancti edificare intendant
[J. Ford Serm. 113. 1]; morborum medicus causam vestiget
[Garl. Epith. II 491].
2 vestigare v. vestigiare