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/riɪgzˌæmənˈeɪʃən/ Listen

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.

Reexamination n. A repeated examination. See under Examination.

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Etymology of 'Reexamination'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reexamination" Quotes from Famous Books

... increased force. The intelligent native who was assisting him in his literary work asked, respecting the account of the flood, "Is all that true?" This, with other inquiries propounded to him by the Zulus, led him to a careful reexamination ...

— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... varieties are incipient species, he is led to study variation in the field where it shows itself most strikingly, and affords the greatest facilities to investigation. Thoughtful naturalists have had increasing grounds to suspect that a reexamination of the question of species in zoology and botany, commencing with those races which man knows most about, viz., the domesticated and cultivated races, would be likely somewhat to modify the received idea of the entire fixity of species. This field, rich with various ...

— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray