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Definition of Searcing
1. searce [v] - See also: searce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Searcing
Literary usage of Searcing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophical Conversations: Or, A New System of Physics, by Way of Dialogue by Regnault (Noël) (1731)
"... Trituration or searcing, which breaks and attenuates the Parts of the Aliment by
... it only be performed in the Stomach by searcing and Trituration ? ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"... Leather cover on the top and bottom of the Sieve Rim, to keep the Dant or
Flower of any Pulverised Substance that nothing be lost of it in the searcing. ..."
3. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"From the resemblance which this filtration may be fancied to bear to searcing or
fine sifting, it may have been taken from Fr. sasser. ..."
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