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noun

Examination n.

The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.

A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry. "He neglected the studies,... stood low at the examinations."

Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law), that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him.

Cross-examination, that made by the opposite party.

Reexamination, or Re-direct examination, (Law) that questioning of a witness at trial made by the party calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross-examination; also called informally re-direct.

Synonyms: Search; inquiry; investigation; research; scrutiny; inquisition; inspection; exploration.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... looking at the writing, and turning the paper round with careful examination, trying to hope, but her ...

— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell

... through the publication of Pickwick, his old teacher sent a silver snuff-box with admiring inscription to the "inimitable Boz," it reminded him of praise far more precious obtained by him at his first year's examination in the Clover Lane academy, when his recitation of a piece out of the Humorist's Miscellany about Doctor Bolus had received, unless his youthful vanity bewildered him, a double encore. A habit, the only bad one taught him by Mr. Giles, of taking for ...

— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

... the hand of his old comrade, and then the three stationed themselves at their several posts. The surface of the river, the tops of the aspens growing on the banks, the banks themselves and the reeds, were all objects of examination for the hunters, as the night was ...

— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid

... claims. For more than two years these men, representative rather of the moderate party than of the "old faction" in the colony, remained in England, frequently appearing before the Lords of Trade, where they were subjected to a searching examination at the hands of a not very sympathetic body of men. The meetings in the Council Chamber in Whitehall, where the committee sat, were occasions full of interest and excitement. At one of them, on April 8, ...

— The Fathers of New England - A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths • Charles M. Andrews

... do these things point? In particular, to this, that despite all of the help which may be provided by outside agencies, finding the straight thoroughfare in work is mainly a problem of searching self-examination and personal decision. The impression which any other person may have of our talents and possibilities is largely formed by what we say, think and feel ...

— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense

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