Synonyms:
inquest
Meaning: an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death
Usage examples
AT THE CORONER'S INQUEST
Douglas Dale could not attend that inquest.
Such--ahem! conduct at an inquest is not to be allowed.
'No! the proceedings they had begun to talk about on the inquest were stopped.
The hour for opening the inquest was at hand and the majority of the witnesses were present.
Only I remember the inquest, and how I was called upon to prove that Peters had himself injected himself with atropine.
Now, you sit down, and let the inquest proceed." And Raymond sat down, but with a great and growing bitterness filling his heart.
She remembered the scene at the inquest, and remembered how she had fainted, and how Raymond had supported her and taken her to the nurse's house.
To add to the wonderment of the public, it came out in the evidence of Lucian Denzil at the inquest that Berwin was not the real name of the victim; so here the authorities were confronted with a three-fold problem.
One day, about a fortnight after the coroner's inquest had been held, and when the excitement of the terrible affair was calming down and Polk Street beginning to resume its monotonous routine, Old Grannis sat in his clean, well-kept little room, in his cushioned armchair, his hands lying idly upon his knees.