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verb

Inspect v. t. (past & past part. inspected; pres. part. inspecting)

To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.

To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend.

noun

Inspect n. Inspection. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inspect" Quotes from Famous Books

... what to do with their prisoners after they should have captured them. However, they pushed on and soon came to a dim cart-way, which ran at right-angles to the main road and which went into the very heart of Holetown. Here they halted to reconnoitre and to inspect their weapons. ...

— Two Little Confederates • Thomas Nelson Page

... false name; as regards the other two they lied. The name was false, for they asserted that the fish was a sea-hare, whereas it was quite another fish, which Themison, my servant, who knows something of medicine, as you heard from his own lips, bought of his own suggestion for me to inspect. For, as a matter of fact, he has not as yet ever come across a sea-hare. But I admit that I search for other kinds of fish as well, and have commissioned not only fishermen but private friends to search for all the rarest kinds of fish, begging ...

— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius

... yourselves a 'board of visitors,'" said she, as they sat at the table after tea, "authorized to inspect this institution and ...

— The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure • E. C. Gardner

... the privilege of ascending the tower once accorded to visitors has, on account of unseemly behaviour, been necessarily withdrawn, and only by a special relaxation of this rule, through the kindness of the Dean, was the writer enabled to inspect the ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans - With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey • Thomas Perkins

... discipline of the regiment; there is no doubt that we are not as smart in appearance as we ought to be, and that the other regiments in the brigade show up better than we do. It is a matter that must be seen to. I shall inspect the regiment very ...

— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty

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