percontation

noun /ˌpɜːkɒnˈteɪʃn̩/

1. an enquiry

   obsolete, rare

   Percontation. An enquiry.

2. A question which cannot properly be given a one-word answer like “yes” or “no”.

   obsolete, rare

   Percontation is a thing for which we cannot anſwer ſignificantly, as in Interrogation, yes: but as thus, he dwelleth in ſuch a place.

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin percontatiō (“inquiry, questioning”), from percontor (“to interrogate, investigate”) + -tiō.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry percontation (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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