Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Survey.

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  • noun rare Survey.

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  • noun archaic survey

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Examples

  • Both were fond of ancient history and romance, and Burton, who could speak Italian fluently and had knowledge of the canalization of the Po Valley, was able to render Scott, whose business was the surveyal of Sind, the precise assistance he just then required.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Both were fond of ancient history and romance, and Burton, who could speak Italian fluently and had knowledge of the canalization of the Po Valley, was able to render Scott, whose business was the surveyal of Sind, the precise assistance he just then required.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • Both were fond of ancient history and romance, and Burton, who could speak Italian fluently and had knowledge of the canalization of the Po Valley, was able to render Scott, whose business was the surveyal of Sind, the precise assistance he just then required.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • Emmeline waited something less than a quarter of an hour; then a hansom drove up, and Mrs. Higgins, after a deliberate surveyal of the house front, followed her daughter up the pathway.

    The Paying Guest George Gissing 1880

  • Here was the mother's dilemma: her girl -- Victor's girl, as she had to think in this instance, -- the most cloudless of the young women of earth, seemed, and might be figured as really, at the falling of a crumb off the table of knowledge, taken by the brain to shoot up to terrific heights of surveyal; and there she rocked; and only her youthful healthiness brought her down to grass and flowers.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Here was the mother's dilemma: her girl -- Victor's girl, as she had to think in this instance, -- the most cloudless of the young women of earth, seemed, and might be figured as really, at the falling of a crumb off the table of knowledge, taken by the brain to shoot up to terrific heights of surveyal; and there she rocked; and only her youthful healthiness brought her down to grass and flowers.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • Here was the mother's dilemma: her girl -- Victor's girl, as she had to think in this instance, -- the most cloudless of the young women of earth, seemed, and might be figured as really, at the falling of a crumb off the table of knowledge, taken by the brain to shoot up to terrific heights of surveyal; and there she rocked; and only her youthful healthiness brought her down to grass and flowers.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

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