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

  • 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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