verb (used with object), -gat·ed, -gat·ing.Archaic.
to investigate; research.
Origin: 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 (compare ambages)