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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An examination; an investigation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Examination; disquisition; inquiry; scrutiny.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete examination; inquiry

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare Examination; inquiry.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a critical study (as of a writer's work)
  2. n. a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits)

Etymologies

  1. Latin, the tongue of a balance, examination; for exagmen, from exigere to weigh accurately, to treat: compare French examen. See exact. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin exāmen, a weighing out; see examine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. examination
  1. inquiry

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  1. critique
  1. criticism
  1. self-contemplation
  1. self-examination
  1. introspection

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  1. assemblation

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