Definitions
To read or examine carefully.
Word origin
From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use.
Used in a sentence
“Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.”
“This survey may be made by perusing al Books and taking notice of all Mechanicall Inventions.”
“We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Read closely”6 letters
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