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perused
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rooz
]
Origin
pe·ruse
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pəˈruz
/
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verb (used with object),
-rused,
-rus·ing.
1.
to read through with thoroughness or care:
to peruse a report.
2.
to read.
3.
to survey or examine in detail.
Origin:
1470–80
in sense “use up, go through”; 1525–35 for current senses;
per-
+
use
Related forms
pe·rus·a·ble,
adjective
pe·rus·er,
noun
pre·pe·ruse,
verb (used with object),
-rused,
-rus·ing.
qua·si-pe·rus·a·ble,
adjective
re·pe·ruse,
verb (used with object),
-rused,
-rus·ing.
EXPAND
un·pe·rus·a·ble,
adjective
un·pe·rused,
adjective
COLLAPSE
Can be confused:
peruse,
pursue
.
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Word Origin & History
peruse
late 15c., "use up, wear out, go through," from M.E. per- "completely" + use (q.v.). Meaning "read carefully" is first recorded 1530s, but this may be a separate formation.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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"What a vast advantage has a speech over a written composition. Men are imposed upon by voice and gesture, and by all that is conducive to enhance the performance. Any little prepossession in favor of the speaker raises their admiration, and then they do their best to comprehend him; they commend his performance before he has begun, but they soon fall off asleep, doze all the time he is preaching, and only wake to applaud him. An author has no such passionate admirers; his works are read at leisure in the country or in the solitude of the study; no public meetings are held to applaud him.... However excellent his book may be, it is read with the intention of finding it but middling; it is
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