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Quotation dates: 1695
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Perlustratione, n. [17th c. Eng. perlustration going round and viewing (1640), f. as Perlustr- v.] In St. Andrews University, a routine inspection of the rooms of students. — c 1695 Coll. St. Salvator 184.
We observe nothing more strictly than visiting of chambers evening and morning which we call perlustratione
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