Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A searching thoroughly; minute search or inquiry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
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- noun rare A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I want the world to take an attentive look at one Walter S. Halliwell, to make a labored perscrutation of this priorient social pewee, this arbiter eligantarium of corn-fed aristocracy, this Beau Brummel of the border, for though Argus had a compound microscope glued to his every eye he might never look upon the like again.
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Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future: the very clothmakers, old women, all townsfolk speak of it, 'and more than once it is reported in St. Edmundsbury, This one is elected; and then, This one and That other.'
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future: the very clothmakers, old women, all townsfolk speak of it, 'and more than once it is reported in St. Edmundsbury, This one is elected; and then, This one, and That other.'
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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-- At last compliance, willing to be royally gracious, said, Well it would consider -- Though there was but little hope -- Nothing it had heard had any cogency of perscrutation -- But, in fine, it would be clement, and consider.
Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777
mollusque commented on the word perscrutation
A thorough investigation or examination; careful scrutiny.
January 28, 2008
reesetee commented on the word perscrutation
It sounds painful.
January 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word perscrutation
Dangity flup the ho-go, that's exactly what I thought when I saw this word, rt.
October 26, 2008
asativum commented on the word perscrutation
I once had one of those on my ... never mind.
October 27, 2008
reesetee commented on the word perscrutation
Thanks for (not) sharing, A. ;->
October 28, 2008