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† ˈtrutinate, v. Obs.
[f. L. trutināt-, ppl. stem of trutināre, f. trutina = Gr. τρῡτάνη balance, pair of scales: see -ate3.]
trans. To weigh in the balances; also fig. to weigh mentally, consider, estimate. So † ˈtrutinate ppl. a. [ad. L. trutinātus, pa. pple.], weighed; fig. considered, estimated (usually const. as pple.); † trutiˈnation, the action of weighing; fig. consideration, estimation; † ˈtrutine [ad. L. trutina = Gr. τρῡτάνη], a balance; fig. in trutine of Hermes (see quots.).
1528St. Papers Hen. VIII, VII. 123 Howe to discerne enserche and *trutynate the true from the false. 1638Whiting Albino & Bellama 10 Madam, sayes he, be pleas'd to trutinate, And wisely, weigh your servants gracefull voyce. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 136 To be trutinated by just weight and measure.
1528St. Papers Hen. VIII, VII. 124 So weighty a cause well *trutinate and expended..by the jugement of..the most excellent clerks and doctours. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1127/2 Humaine fragilitie suffereth not all thinges to bee pondered, trutinate, and weyed in iust balaunce. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. i. 1 The view and trutinate intimation of a subiect, from Center to Circumference.
1633B. C. Puritanism i. 22 The lesser sinne, and the greatest are alike..in Gods iust *trutination and weighing of them. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. vii. 196 In regard of the scale or decision of trutination.
1647Lilly Chr. Astrol xcviii. 501 The first way..of rectifying a Nativity..was by the *Trutine or Scrutiny of Hermes. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Trutine of Hermes, an artificial method of rectifying a Nativity, by finding out the Day of Conception, and the place of the Moon at that time. 1819J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol., Rectification, the method of bringing a nativity to its true time... Beside the animoder of Ptolemy, we have the trutine of Hermes, the methods of Argol, Morin, Kepler, &c., &c. |