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Webster 1913 Edition

Perusal

Pe-rus′al

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Noun.

[From

.]

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)

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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Translations

studying something carefully

Finnish: tutkiminen (fi), huolellinen lukeminen
Greek: μελετώ προσεκτικά ‎(meletó prosektiká)
Icelandic: lestur (is) m
Latin: lectio f
Russian: рассмотре́ние (ru) n ‎(rassmotrénije), рассма́тривание (ru) n ‎(rassmátrivanije), осмо́тр (ru) m ‎(osmótr), прочте́ние (ru) n ‎(pročténije), чте́ние (ru) n ‎(čténije) (reading), изуче́ние (ru) n ‎(izučénije) (study), иссле́дование (ru) n ‎(isslédovanije) (research), перлюстра́ция (ru) f ‎(perljustrácija) (perlustration)