pervestigation

English

Etymology

Latin pervestigatio.

Noun

pervestigation (usually uncountable, plural pervestigations)

1. (obsolete) thorough investigation
   • 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants:

     In the pervestigation of the true and genuine text, it was perspicuously manifest to all men that there was no argument more firm or certain to be relied on.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pervestigation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)