Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Careful examination or survey; scrunity.
- noun The act of perusing or reading through; reading.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of carefully viewing or examining.
- noun The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care.
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- noun The act of
perusing ;studying something carefully.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun reading carefully with intent to remember
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Examples
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So here, for your Valentine's Day evening perusal, is my remark/question for our discussion.
Fragments Shattered by History Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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So here, for your Valentine's Day evening perusal, is my remark/question for our discussion.
Archive 2008-02-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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A particular favorite of my brief little perusal is the following: gag a maggot off a gutwagon - Something that stinks. e.g.,
Taints Slimbolala 2005
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But the Press Telegram prints it right next to the comics, which is where all intelligent people begin perusal of the morning's news (and outside of baseball season often end it) so the eyes early in the morning still affected by sleep can sometimes inadvertantly slide over to that column.
04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004
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The first round, where hundreds of folks submitted wondrous items for the judges’ perusal, is over and the top 32 have been selected!
RPG Superstar 2009 Round One – Results Are In! « Geek Related 2009
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So after completing what can only be described as a perusal and skimming of the contents within, we have decided to help all those folks who are not reading the book to learn the shocking secrets held within.
July 2007 2007
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Available for your perusal are the following documents:
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So after completing what can only be described as a perusal and skimming of the contents within, we have decided to help all those folks who are not reading the book to learn the shocking secrets held within.
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THE letters which I had expected reached me at Avignon, and the result of their perusal was the information, that my presence was necessary in
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney
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How far in other directions besides mere versification he and his fellows had slipped from the right way, may be perhaps most pleasantly and quite fully discovered from the perusal, which is not very difficult, of his tragi-comedy or extravaganza, _The Goblins_.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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