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/sˈɪftɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Sift v. t. (past & past part. sifted; pres. part. sifting)

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

To separate or part as if with a sieve. "When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show."

To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize. "Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable." "Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee." "Let him but narrowly sift his ideas."

To sift out, to search out with care, as if by sifting.

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Etymology of 'Sifting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to know who. After all, it may not be the man arrested and arraigned, though most think it is. But, to be fully convinced, further evidence is wanted; as also a more careful sifting of that already obtained. ...

— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; O, be swift, my soul, to answer Him; be jubilant, my feet,— Our ...

— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

... about the transition of the first century to the second, a series of teachers, who, under the impression of the Gospel, sought to make the Old Testament capable of furthering the tendency to a universal religion, not by allegorical interpretation, but by a sifting criticism. These attempts were of very different kinds. Teachers such as Cerinthus, clung to the notion that the universal religion revealed by Christ was identical with undefined Mosaism, and ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... overseas uniforms that they had worn in their ride over the Old Apache Trail. In addition, a red bandana handkerchief was twisted about the neck of each Overland Rider, in true western style, to keep the alkali dust from sifting down ...

— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert • Jessie Graham Flower

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— History of Louisisana • Le Page Du Pratz

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