Word of the Day: SCRUTE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scrūtārī (to examine, scrutinize)

EXAMPLE
“…In no other maner or fassyon tem
Be the yeres of men whyche so sone over go
My synne and inequite why doste thou scrute so
And yet thou knowest that in me no synne shall be fande
Sythe no man may eschape thy mortall hande
…”

From: The Prymer, Salysbery Use, 1536

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