perscrutating

Verb

perscrutate (third-person singular simple present perscrutates, present participle perscrutating, simple past and past participle perscrutated)

1. (rare, transitive) To scrutinize, peruse, inspect (something).
   • For though in the Laws of nature ard men, there is myſterious abſtruſity, which toils and troubles the Learners brain, in perſcrutating and underſtanding them; the effects whereof are viſible in the moroſity and ſeparation of their Students, from the pleaſures of converſation and diverſion; yet are...1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e. Edward Waterhouse], chapter III, in Forteſcutus Illuſtratus, or A Commentary On that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, London: […] Tho. Roycroft for Thomas...