SEARCH

I. verb see: circum- Date: 14th century transitive verb to look into or over carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something: as, to examine in seeking something , to look through or explore by inspecting possible places of concealment or investigating suspicious circumstances, to read thoroughly ; check , to examine for articles concealed on the person, to look at as if to discover or penetrate intention or nature, to uncover, find, or come to know by inquiry or scrutiny, intransitive verb to look or inquire carefully , to make painstaking investigation or examination, ~able adjective ~er noun ~ingly adverb II. noun Date: 15th century 1. an act of ~ing , an act of boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas in exercise of right of ~, a party that ~es, power or range of penetrating