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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Examples
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It ended with a chanting perlustration of the church, led by the priest: this is the so-called "pesatura."
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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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.
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"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
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"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
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"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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