Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Inspecttion \In*spect"tion\, n. [L. inspectio: cf. F.
inspection.]
1. The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully;
a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny;
investigation. --Spenser.
With narrow search, and with inspection deep,
Considered every creature. --Milton.
2. The act of overseeing; official examination or
superintendence.
{Trial by inspection} (O. Eng. Law), a mode of trial in which
the case was settled by the individual observation and
decision of the judge upon the testimony of his own
senses, without the intervention of a jury. --Abbott.