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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To peruse again.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To peruse again.

Examples

  • “Didst thou not, by the conclusion of my former, perceive the consternation I was in, just as I was about to reperuse thy letter, in order to prevail upon myself to recede from my purpose of awaking in terrors my slumbering charmer?”

    Clarissa Harlowe

  • “It was some days before I saw her: and this intervenient space giving me time to reperuse what I had written, I thought it proper to lay that aside, and to write in a style a little less fervent; for you would have blamed me, I knew, for the freedom of some of my expressions,”

    Clarissa Harlowe

  • “I will reperuse what thy advocate has to say for thee.”

    Clarissa Harlowe

  • “He is dead now, but his son and all princes who live by the sword would do well to peruse and reperuse the accounts of the tragical scenes that the victors left upon the battle-field when they departed to receive the ovations of the fickle populace.”

    Roumania Past and Present

  • “My manuscripts were returned, with this quiet bit of advice: -- 'Before "X.Y.Z." institutes any other reforms, we would advise him to reperuse his English Grammar.”

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863

  • “To combat this double machination of Satan, he was obliged carefully to reperuse the work, and to form this singular list of the blunders of printers working under the influence of the devil.”

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831

  • “Being anxious carefully to reperuse these, and afterwards to make acquaintance with other works of the same kind, he found himself an object of contempt, and was laughed (523) at for his lectures, instead of their gaining him fame or profit.”

    De vita Caesarum

  • “I hardly know how a greater service of that kind could now be done to the community, than by a renewed and wide diffusion of that admirable paper, and an earnest invitation to every man in the country to reperuse and consider it.”

    Washington's Birthday

  • “In the commencement, the student ought carefully to reperuse what he has written, correct, in the first instance, every error of orthography and grammar.”

    John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court

  • “No avocations of professional labour will make him abandon their wholesome study; in the midst of a thousand cares he will find an hour to recur to his boyish lessons -- to reperuse them in the pleasurable consciousness of old associations, and in the clearness of manly judgment, and to apply them to himself and to the world with superior profit.”

    The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson

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