Back | scrutate /SKRU-tayt/ |
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Front | verb tr. To investigate. [from Latin scrutari (to examine). Earliest documented use: 1882.] "Philosophers have too often thought that they can learn more about human nature by scrutating the murky depths of substance and faculties than by interpreting the obvious evidence." - John Lachs; The Relevance of Philosophy to Life; Vanderbilt University Press; 1995. |
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