Definition of Perusals

1. perusal [n] - See also: perusal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perusals

pertussis immune globulin
pertussis immunoglobulin
pertussis syndrome
pertussis toxin
pertussis toxins
pertussis vaccine
pertussises
pertuzumab
peruke
peruked
perukes
perula
perulae
perusable
perusal
perusals (current term)
peruse
perused
peruser
perusers
peruses
perusing
peruvian
peruviol
pervade
pervaded
pervader
pervaders
pervades

Literary usage of Perusals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Parliamentary Costs: Private Bills, Election Petitions, Appeals, House of Lords by Edward Webster (1881)
"perusals. and upwards. perusals, generally, should be charged by the time £ sd occupied, but if per folio, not exceeding ... 0 0 4 Obtaining and perusing ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Costs in an Action for the Queen's Bench Division by William Edward Gordon (1884)
"... the taxing officer Inserting amendments in a printed copy of any pleading, special case, or petition of right, when not reprinted Or per folio perusals. ..."

3. Books and Persons: Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett (1917)
"... UNFINISHED perusals ONE of the moral advantages of not being 25 a regular professional, labelled, literary critic is that when one has been unable to ..."

4. The Consolidated General Orders of the High Court of Chancery: With by Great Britain Court of Chancery (1860)
"... for drawing a document in all cases includes a copy, if required, for the use of the solicitor or client, or for the settlement of counsel. perusals. ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1892)
"... to a reader, telling him that there was nothing in a poem which two or three perusals ought not to render intelligible. In days such as the present, ..."

6. Sermons and Discourses: Now Completed by the Introduction of His Posthumous by Thomas Chalmers (1877)
"... carried forward, not by perusals of the book alone, neither by prayers for the blessing alone, but by the co-operation of the perusals with the prayers. ..."

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