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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

perlustrare

to wander all through, to survey. See 3d

The act of viewing all over.

[Archaic]

Howell.

Noun.

[L. perlustro; per and lustro, to survey.]

The act of viewing all over.

perlustration ‎(plural perlustrations)

the action or fact of perlustrating
thorough examination of a document or of correspondence
- 1962: Yes, after a thorough perlustration of the loot that Andron and Niagarushka had obtained from the Queen's rosewood writing desk (mostly bills, and treasured snapshots, and those silly medals) a letter from the King did turn up — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

thorough examination of a document or of correspondence