Definition of Examen

1. Noun. A detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits).

Exact synonyms: Examination
Generic synonyms: Introspection, Self-contemplation, Self-examination
Derivative terms: Examine, Examine

2. Noun. A critical study (as of a writer's work).
Generic synonyms: Criticism, Critique

Definition of Examen

1. n. Examination; inquiry.

Definition of Examen

1. Noun. (obsolete) examination; inquiry ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Examen

1. a critical study [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Examen

exaltations
exalted
exaltedly
exaltedness
exalter
exalters
exalteth
exalting
exaltment
exaltments
exaltolide
exaltone
exalts
exam
exam paper
examen (current term)
examens
exameter
exameters
exametre
exametres
exametron
examin
examin'd
examinability
examinable
examinant
examinants
examinate
examination

Literary usage of Examen

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

1. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... the abuses in the finances—The abilities of this prince for government— Singular events—Exposition, examen, and artifice of the last will of Philip II. ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1817)
"... Himself Again! or the Language of the Poet asserted; being a full and dispassionate examen of the Headings and Interpretations of (he several Editors. ..."

3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1833)
"X. — examen Critique des Travaux de feu M. Champollion sur les Hieroglyphes, par J. KLAPROTH. 8vo. Paris : 1832. is precisely the kind of book which, ..."

4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"Davenant'i Homer, Virgil, Lucau, and Statius are passed success- examen. ively in review, and receive each his appropriate compliment, put with dignified ..."

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