Definitions
Careful study to discover facts or reach new conclusions
Word origin
Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”), by surface analysis, re- + search.
Used in a sentence
“The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang, a city of about 1.2 million people.”
“The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.”
“The first step I took in this so necessary a research, was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution[…]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“academic study”8 letters
02“Careful study”8 letters
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