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perusal|pəˈruːzəl|
[f. peruse v. + -al1.]
1. Survey, examination, scrutiny. Obs. or arch.
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. i. 90 He fals to such perusall of my face, As he would draw it. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. i. i. (1712) 9 Permitting a freer perusal of matters of Religion than in former Ages. 1710Addison & Steele Tatler No. 265 ⁋2 The Jury, after a short Perusal of the Staff, declared..That the Substance was British Oak. 1845Judd Margaret ii. vi, He..gave her a close perusal with his eye.
2. A reading through or over.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxxviii. If ought in me, Worthy perusal stand against thy sight. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 73 The book..being publisht to the world,..by him who both for his life and for his death deserves, that what advice he left be not laid by without perusall. 1711Steele Spect. No. 27 ⁋5 What could be observed of them from a Perusal of their private Letters. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. i. (1880) 12 To the thoughtful, the perusal of the Bible gave new views of life and death. |