Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of viewing thoroughly; survey; thorough inspection.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Archaic The act of viewing all over.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the action or fact of perlustrating
  • noun thorough examination of a document or of correspondence

Etymologies

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From perlustrate.

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Examples

  • It ended with a chanting perlustration of the church, led by the priest: this is the so-called "pesatura."

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • It is this obfuscation of globalisation with perfect markets that provides one with sufficient evidence as to the requirement of more unimpeachable definition and interpretation of any empirical perlustration undertaken hereunder.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows segun_bewaji 2010

  • "The result of my perlustration and perscontation of this isoperimetrical protuberance is a belief at it is one of those rare and wonderful creation left by the Mound Builders.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • "The result of my perlustration and perscontation of this isoperimetrical protuberance is a belief at it is one of those rare and wonderful creation left by the Mound Builders.

    Sketches New and Old, Part 3. Mark Twain 1872

  • "The result of my perlustration and perscontation of this isoperimetrical protuberance is a belief at it is one of those rare and wonderful creation left by the Mound Builders.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

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