v. Obs. [f. L. trutināt-, ppl. stem of trutināre, f. trutina = Gr. τρῡτάνη balance, pair of scales: see -ATE3.] trans. To weigh in the balances; also fig. to weigh mentally, consider, estimate. So † Trutinate ppl. a. [ad. L. trutinātus, pa. pple.], weighed; fig. considered, estimated (usually const. as pple.); † Trutination, the action of weighing; fig. consideration, estimation; † Trutine [ad. L. trutina = Gr. τρῡτάνη], a balance; fig. in trutine of Hermes (see quots.).
1528. St. Papers Hen. VIII., VII. 123. Howe to discerne enserche and *trutynate the true from the false.
1638. Whiting, Albino & Bellama, 10. Madam, sayes he, be pleas’d to trutinate, And wisely weigh your servants gracefull voyce.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 136. To be trutinated by just weight and measure.
1528. St. Papers Hen. VIII., VII. 124. So weighty a cause well *trutinate and expended … by the jugement of … the most excellent clerks and doctours.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 1127/2. Humaine fragilitie suffereth not all thinges to bee pondered, trutinate, and weyed in iust balaunce.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. i. 1. The view and trutinate intimation of a subiect, from Center to Circumference.
1633. B. C., Puritanism, I. 22. The lesser sinne, and the greatest are alike … in Gods iust *trutination and weighing of them.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. vii. 196. In regard of the scale or decision of trutination.
1647. Lilly, Chr. Astrol., xcviii. 501. The first way … of rectifying a Nativity … was by the *Trutine or Scrutiny of Hermes.
1696. Phillips (ed. 5), Trutine of Hermes, an artificial method of rectifying a Nativity, by finding out the Day of Conception, and the place of the Moon at that time.
1819. Jas. Wilson, Compl. Dict. Astrol., Rectification, the method of bringing a nativity to its true time…. Beside the animoder of Ptolemy, we have the trutine of Hermes, the methods of Argol, Morin, Kepler, &c., &c.
