request

command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod., despatch, dispatch; message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions; appointment, fixture., demand, exaction, imposition, requisition, claim, reclamation, revendication; ultimatum (terms); request; requirement., dictation; dictate, mandate; caveat, decree, senatus consultum; precept; prescript, rescript; writ, ordination, bull, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, firman, hatti-sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation; word, word of command; mot d'ordre; bugle call, trumpet call; beat of drum, tattoo; order of the day; enactment (law); plebiscite (choice).

inquiry; request; search, research, quest, pursuit., examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation; perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation; inquest, inquisition; exploration; exploitation, ventilation., sifting; calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction; Baconian method., strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry; narrow search, strict search; study (consideration)., scire facias, ad referendum; trial., questioning; interrogation, interrogatory; interpellation; challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism; feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy; leading question; discussion (reasoning)., reconnoitering, reconnaissance; prying; espionage, espionnage; domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain; lantern of Diogenes., question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism; subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy; point in dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue; bone of contention (discord); plain question, fair question, open question; enigma (secret); knotty point (difficulty); quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry., inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist; scrutator, scrutineer, scrutinizer; analyst; quidnunc (curiosity).

order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo; music of the spheres., gradation, progression; series (continuity)., subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline; orderliness., rank, place (term).

will, volition, conation, velleity; liberum arbitrium; will and pleasure, free will; freedom; discretion; option (choice); voluntariness; spontaneity, spontaneousness; originality., pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind (inclination); intention; predetermination; self-control, determination (resolution) [more]; force of will.