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scrutinize, v.|ˈskruːtɪnaɪz|
[f. scrutin-y + -ize.]
1. trans. To subject to scrutiny; to examine methodically and with close attention.
1671Salmon Syn. Med. Introd. 6 We have with much labour scrutinized the best Authors, &c. 1764Reid Inquiry vi. §6 Des Cartes gave a noble example of turning our attention inward and scrutinizing our sensations. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. I. 295 She began..to scrutinize her heart, with an uncommon degree of severity. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. I. 75 Mr. Pentreath scrutinised his son through his spectacles, perhaps to make sure that he was sober. 1881Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. iv. 215 The closer all such documents are scrutinised the more clear becomes the nature of their origin.
b. spec. with reference to votes. (Cf. scrutiny 2 c.)
1750H. Walpole Let. to Mann 25 Feb., The Westminster election, which is still scrutinising, produced us a parliamentary event this week.
†2. intr. To make scrutiny. Const. into. Obs.
1699Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 256 The bank is now scrutinizing upon whom the choice of the new directors is fallen. 1742Lond. & Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) 17 The latest and best Doctors have so far scrutinised into the prime Cause of our British Malady the Scurvy as to affirm [etc.]. 1743in Etoniana (1865) 69 After prayers and sacrament they began to vote... Thus they continued scrutinising and walking about. 1788Trifler No. 9. 114 They will have a better opportunity of scrutinizing into the minutest circumstances.
Hence ˈscrutinizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈscrutinizingly adv.
1782F. Burney Cecilia i. iv, With the scrutinizing observation of a man on the point of making a bargain. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 172 Thus it is that to any scrutinizing eye the secret, had there been any, would have been betrayed. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 49 We look rather more scrutinizingly into its expression. 1883A. S. Swan Aldersyde i. ii. (ed. 2) 34 Her restless black eyes wandered scrutinizingly over the face and figure of her comely young kinswoman. |