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Examen

noun
1.
A detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits).  Synonym: examination.
2.
A critical study (as of a writer's work).





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"Examen" Quotes from Famous Books



... earliest of such tables were constructed and when chronometers came into use is obscure, but they were in existence in at least a rudimentary form early in the fifteenth century. [Footnote: Humboldt, Examen Critique, ...
— European Background Of American History - (Vol. I of The American Nation: A History) • Edward Potts Cheyney
... prone to spend itself in fruit, (the ultimate effort, and final endeavour of its most delicate sap,) than in solid and close substance to encrease the timber. And this shall suffice, though some haply might here recommend to us a more accurate microscopical examen, to interpret their most secret schematismes, which were an over-nicety for these ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn


Words linked to "Examen" :   self-examination, self-contemplation, critique, criticism, introspection


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