Perscrutation

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This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A searching thoroughly; minute search or inquiry.
  • Word Usage
    "I want the world to take an attentive look at one Walter S. Halliwell, to make a labored perscrutation of this priorient social pewee, this arbiter eligantarium of corn-fed aristocracy, this Beau Brummel of the border, for though Argus had a compound microscope glued to his every eye he might never look upon the like again."