1. The act of examining a careful search or inquiry, with a view to discover truth or the real state of things careful and accurate inspection of a thing and its parts as an examination of a house or a ship.

2. Mental inquiry disquisition careful consideration of the circumstances or facts which relate to a subject or question a view of qualities and relations, and an estimate of their nature and importance.

3. Trial by a rule or law.

4. In judicial proceedings, a careful inquiry into facts by testimony an attempt to ascertain truth by inquiries and interrogatories as the examination of a witness or the merits of a cause.

5. In seminaries of learning, an inquiry into the acquisitions of the students, by questioning them in literature and the sciences, and by hearing their recitals.

6. In chimistry and other sciences, a searching for the nature and qualities of substances, by experiments the practice or application of the docimastic art.

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