sifted

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(2) In the Court of First Instance the verbal evidence was heard and sifted, the _fiscal_, or prosecuting attorney, expressing his opinion to the judge.

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  1. transitive verb To put (flour, for example) through a sieve or other straining device in order to separate the fine from the coarse particles.
  2. transitive verb To distinguish as if separating with a sieve: sifted the candidates for the job.
  3. transitive verb To apply by scattering with or as if with a sieve: sift sugar on a dessert.

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  • Information on Israel's national security issues - filtered, sifted, and stored for easy retrieval -
  • The very reason Paul wants the prophetic words of prophets weighed and sifted, as he suggests in both Romans and 1 Corinthians, is because they may well be 80\% Spirit inspired, but 20\% human additives. —  Ben Witherington
  • His material has been thoroughly sifted, and the reader may depend upon the absolute truth of the evidence here presented The author does not claim infallibility; some of his conclusions may be erroneous; he believes_, however, that future investigation will prove the verity of every proposition that is advanced in this book. —  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
  • In some localities on the evening of the third day the ashes of the cooking-place are sifted, and laid out on a tray at night on the spot where the deceased died, or near the cooking-place. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
  • They were unwilling to submit to the trouble of weighing contradictory testimonies; and they were destitute of those critical rules by which evidence is sifted, the true distinguished from the false, the certain from the uncertain. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
 

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