Verb
inquire after (third-person singular simple present inquires after, present participle inquiring after, simple past and past participle inquired after)
(transitive, US) to ask about the health of someone.
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition. Joseph Addison
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge. Michel de Montaigne