Citations:inspexion

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English citations of inspexion and inſpexion

Noun: antiquated spelling of inspection

1765 1850 1894
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  • 1765 C.E., William Blackstone, Commentaries On The Laws Of England, Clarendon Press; Volume I, Chapter VII, pages 230–231:
    It was ranked among the arcana imperii ; and, like the myſteries of the bona dea, was not ſuffered to be pried into by any but ſuch as were initiated in it’s ſervice : becauſe perhaps the exertion of the one, like the ſolemnities of the other, would not bear the inſpexion of a rational and ſober enquiry.
  • 1850 C.E., The Bunkum Flag‐Staff and Independent Echo, in The Knickerbocker; Volume XXXV, page #61:
    A patent churn and washing‐machine, to go by dog‐power, are left here for inspexion.
  • 1894 C.E., Henry Rawling and others, quoted in Extracts from the records of the Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne (various publishers); Volume I, page #159:
    And for the Scotts, wee are certified by those officers who have inspexion and oversight of the passages betwixt Carlisle and Berwick, that they were never better looked too, being this year soe mett withall, that it’s supposed they wilbe affraid hereafter to hazard much in that kind.