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Webster 1913 Edition


Perusal

Pe-rus′al

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Noun.
[From
Peruse
.]
1.
The act of carefully viewing or examining.
[R.]
Tatler.
2.
The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care.
Woodward.

Webster 1828 Edition


Perusal

PERU'SAL

,
Noun.
s as z. [from peruse.] The act of reading.
This treatise requires application in the perusal.
1.
Careful view or examination. [Unusual.]

Definition 2024


perusal

perusal

English

Noun

perusal (countable and uncountable, plural perusals)

  1. The act of perusing; studying something carefully.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
      These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.

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