perlustration

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It ended with a chanting perlustration of the church, led by the priest: this is the so-called "pesatura."

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  1. The act of viewing thoroughly; survey; thorough inspection. By the perlustration of such famous cities, castles, amphitheaters, and palaces, … hee [may] come to discerne the best of all earthly things to be frayle and transitory. Howell, Forreine Travell, p. 70.

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  • It ended with a chanting perlustration of the church, led by the priest: this is the so-called "pesatura." —  Old Calabria
  • "Contemplation, speculation, perlustration." —  The Poor Little Rich Girl
  • "The result of my perlustration and perscontation of this isoperimetrical protuberance is a belief at it is one of those rare and wonderful creation left by the Mound Builders. —  Sketches New and Old
 

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  1. = Italian perlustrazione, from Latin as if *perlustratio(n-), from perlustrare, past participle perlustratus, wander through, view all over, examine: see perlustrate.
 

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