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perscrutation|pɜːskruːˈteɪʃən|
[a. obs. F. perscrutation (early 16th c.), ad. L. perscrūtātiōn-em, noun of action f. perscrūtāre: see perscrute.]
A thorough searching or investigation; careful scrutiny, examination.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xxii. (1632) 51 The first and universall reasons are of a hard perscrutation. 1678R. R[ussell] tr. Geber ii. i. i. iii. 27 Void of Ingenuity in every Perscrutation. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. viii, Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future!
So perˈscrutate v. trans., to make a careful or thorough investigation; † perscruˈtator [a. L. (post-cl.) perscrūtātor], one who investigates thoroughly (Blount Glossogr. 1656).
1900A. Lang in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 789 We had all savage languages perscrutated by new Bopps and Kuhns. |