1605 A. Munday tr. G. Affinati Dumbe Divine Speaker xxii. 242 In search and research of the whole history of Dauid, I could neuer yet find that he had any such key.

1709 W. Reeves tr. Justin Martyr et al. Apol. I. 2 After Searches and Researches, and tumbling from Sect to Sect..he was led into the way of Truth.

1746 Ascanus 272 Those Parts having already been thoroughly ransack'd, and in all Probability would not be exposed to a Re-search.

1858 Littell's Living Age 12 June 812/2 Dupin advises him to make a re-search of the premises.

1878 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David V. Ps. cvii. 4 They wandered up and down in vain searches and researches.

1938 Times Sept. 20 40/3 The train in which the loss was said to have occurred was subject to search and re-search.

1999 R. A. Smith Borderlander ix. 138 The hunters had an orgy on the twenty gallons of whiskey found during a re-search of the goods.

1708 Acct. Remarkable Passages Life Private Gentleman ii. 103 Suspect thy own [heart], search and research it, and thou shalt find one abomination hid under another.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xiii. 23 I searched and researched my memory.

1841 E. A. Poe in Graham's Mag. Apr. 171/2 The premises in question had been carefully re-searched, and fresh examinations of witnesses instituted.

1861 E. O'Curry Lect. Manuscript Materials Anc. Irish Hist. 434 To search and research through the ancient MSS. themselves.

1918 Times 9 Aug. 9/6 It is for the nation to respond,..to search and research,..so as to find that little place in the sun.

2007 A. Warren Singapore 1942 v. 77 The destroyer Stronghold and four United States Navy destroyers steamed north from Singapore to re-search the area in which the battleships had sunk, but they found no more survivors.