Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Search; scrutiny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Search; scrutiny.
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- noun obsolete
Search ;scrutiny .
Etymologies
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Latin scrutatio.
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Examples
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Scots, who being strangely diseased was, by some devine intelligence, advised to take the water of a well in England, called Muswell, which after long scrutation and inquisition, this well was found and performed the cure "(Norden's" Speculum Britanniae, "p. 36, edit.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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