verb (used with object),in·da·gat·ed,in·da·gat·ing.Archaic.
to investigate; research.
Origin of
indagate
1615–25; < Latin
indāgātus, past participle of
indāgāre to track down, verbal derivative of
indāgō ring of beaters, nets, etc., for trapping game, equivalent to
ind-, by-form of
in-in-2 (see
endo-) +
-āgō, derivative of
agere to drive (cf.
ambages)
