Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reperuse.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word reperused.

Examples

  • This second paper he also perused and reperused more than once, and still, as he read it, bent from time to time a wary and observant eye upon

    The Monastery 2008

  • The Florentine readily obeyed, and his lordship was enchanted; during which time the Scotchman reperused Fingal, the Oxford professor re-perused Homer; and every one was content.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The letter was finally reperused and placed in her pocket.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • Here are stories which powerfully affect the reader, which can he reperused at any age, and where the characters are no more than puppets.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • Morris reperused this literary trifle with approbation.

    The Wrong Box 2004

  • He who had just reperused the document was but a simple

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • She reperused the marginal notes, and they seemed the production of an animated, but not of a disturbed imagination.

    Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman 2002

  • But God has so finely attempered the Scripture, that they can neither be read without profit, nor, after having been perused and reperused innumerable times, can they be put aside through aversion or disgust.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

  • Maxwell, with an absent mind, perused and reperused the first page of

    Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

  • I reperused the document and found several lines, which, though in perfect keeping with the sense and context of the composition, were certainly not in my natural style.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.