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▪ I. † ˈinspect, n. Obs.
[app. ad. L. inspectu-s looking at, inspection, examination, f. ppl. stem of inspicĕre: see next. (Stress orig. inˈspect, in 18th c. ˈinspect: cf. respect, aspect.)]
The act of looking into a matter; inspection, examination.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn lii. 199 Wherupon they fulsone, wythoute eny other inspecte concluded togyder that they sholde departe the nexte daye. 1509Hawes Joyf. Medit. v, O God..In whose inspecte is euery regall se. 1509― Past. Pleas. viii. (Percy Soc.) 33 And yf that they had in it inspecte, Than they would it prayse. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. ii. 18 The Book of life..whose writing is indelible, whose inspect is desirable. 1693Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 158 Matters of fact and matters of law, wch private men can never have a clear inspect into. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 1134 Not so the man of philosophic eye, And inspect sage.
▪ II. inspect, v.|ɪnˈspɛkt|
[f. L. inspect-, ppl. stem of inspicĕre to look into, inspect, examine, and its frequentative inspectā-re to look at, observe, view: cf. mod.F. inspecter (1781 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. trans. To look carefully into; to view closely and critically; to examine (something) with a view to find out its character or condition; now spec. to investigate or oversee officially: see inspector 1.
1623Cockeram, Inspected, looked into. 1670Sir Sackville Crow in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 16 That mannifacture grows worse daylie, except inspected by one that knowes worke. 1690Child Disc. Trade (1694) 8 All men that make it any part of their business to inspect the true nature and principles of trade. 1704Swift T. Tub Ded. Posterity, To keep you in an almost universal ignorance of our Studies, which it is your inherent birthright to inspect. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) VII. xviii. i. 359 He dreaded inspecting the truth. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. I. ii. iii. 128 They inspect some of those conceited writers. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 608 He inspected nature with the close eye of a naturalist. 1860Tyndall Glac. 166 Halting at intervals..to inspect the glacier.
†2. intr. To look closely or carefully; to examine into or among. Obs.
1704Swift T. Tub iii, Whoever designs to be a perfect writer must inspect into the books of critics. 1705Farquhar Twin-Rivals ii. iii, He has declar'd..that he would inspect into all his accounts himself. 1724Swift Corr. Wks. 1841 II. 569 That..you would please to inspect among your father's papers. 1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 8 By inspecting into the figures and inscriptions of the..coins.
Hence inˈspected ppl. a., inˈspecting vbl. n. and ppl. a.; hence inˈspectingly adv.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 738 Th' inspected Entrails cou'd no Fates foretell. 1788in Outing (U.S.) (1894) Apr. 76/1 Places for exercise, and inspecting of arms and accoutrements. 1796–7Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 262 The inspecting General may be enabled to report the more minutely. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xii. 94 [The bear] rose upon his hind palms, and..snuffed the air inspectingly. 1863A. Tylor Educ. & Manuf. 49 The deplorable account of the state of education in the inspected schools. |