scrutate

present singular third person scrutates · participle present scrutating · participle past scrutated · past scrutated

1. raretransitiveTo scrutinize, peruse, inspect, investigate (something).First known use late 19th c.

   Scrutating a map in such details shows us that it is built around specific challenges to confront existing strategic habits.

   2024 February 28, Simon Dor, “Decoding and Foreseeing” (chapter I), in StarCraft: Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy, University of Michigan Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 19

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   The only way to cure them is to refuse to show interest in them, discipline them properly, avoid coddling them in any way, do not foster their self pity, above all do not tell them how much rest they need or what interesting subjects they are, or invent some new method of scrutating their minds or of telling them that they were really not to blame and that it is their nature or heredity that is at fault, but insist on their doing things, for discipline is the word in the treatment of them.

   1923 [1912], James J. Walsh, “Appendix III. III. Hysteria and Hypnotism”, in Psychotherapy: […], New York; London: D. Appleton and Company, page 806

   Philosophers have too often thought that they can learn more about human nature by scrutating the murky depths of substance and faculties than by interpreting the obvious evidence.

   1995, John Lachs, The Relevance of Philosophy to Life, Nashville; London: Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 251