–verb (used with object), -gat⋅ed, -gat⋅ing.Archaic.
to investigate; research.
Origin: 1615–25; < L indāgātus, ptp. of indāgāre to track down, v. deriv. of indāgō ring of beaters, nets, etc., for trapping game, equiv. to ind-, by-form of in-in-2(see endo-) + -āgō, deriv. of agere to drive (cf. ambages)