Definition for RE-SEARCH

RE-SEARCH, v.t. [reserch'; Fr. rechercher; re and chercher.]

  1. To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently for the truth. It is not easy to research with due distinction, in the actions of eminent personages, both how much may have been blemished by the envy of others, and what was corrupted by their own felicity. [Unusual.] – Wotton.
  2. To search again; to examine anew.

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