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perlustration
noun as in examination
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noun as in inspection
noun as in scrutiny
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noun as in survey
Example Sentences
All down the centuries we may recognise those four letters—surmounted in imperial times by an eagle—crowning the standard of the Romans, carried far and wide not only through the streets of the city and to the uttermost ends of the earth, but in that religious perlustration of the ager when the ambarvalia rites were celebrated at the Cluilian Trench which separated Rome from Alba Longa, the site of the combat between the Alban Curatii and the Roman Horatii.
Mr. Palmer was the author of several antiquarian works, the best known of which is his “Perlustration of Great Yarmouth.”
C. J. Palmer, author of “The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth,” p. 275was presented with a silver epergne and gold watch by the inhabitants of the borough, in recognition of his labours in antiquarian work and literature.
It ended with a chanting perlustration of the church, led by the priest: this is the so-called "pesatura."
The result of my perlustration and perscontation of this isoperimetrical protuberance is a belief at it is one of those rare and wonderful creation left by the Mound Builders.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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