What is "exhaustive"

Usage examples of "exhaustive".

The exhaustive overview by Gustave Reese had been on the shelf, likewise the study of Gregorian Chant by Willi Apel, but little else.

Upon him and his exhaustive work all others have largely drawn,--notably Professor Arber himself,--and his conclusions seem entitled to the same weight here which Arber gives them in other relations.

This, while it made Fanny bestow on her a shy, grateful smile which made her feel that she was a traitress, had the desired effect of luring Selina into an exhaustive discussion of the persons to be invited to meet the Leavenings, and of the arrangements for their entertainment which it would be necessary to make.

The inaugural dissertation was, however, but a brief antepast of something more exhaustive to follow.

In a word, without apperception our minds, with strikingly greater and more exhaustive labor, would attain relatively smaller results.

Joseph de Maistre and his disciples have advocated, let us on the other hand be equally on our guard against accepting the material facts which underlie these beliefs as their deepest foundation and their exhaustive explanation.

While thus recognizing the natural origin of this consecrated symbol, while discovering that it is based on the sacredness of numbers, and this in turn on the structure and necessary relations of the human body, thus disowning the meaningless mysticism that Joseph de Maistre and his disciples have advocated, let us on the other hand be equally on our guard against accepting the material facts which underlie these beliefs as their deepest foundation and their exhaustive explanation.

Company, in fact, had provided Manny with a cover identity and backstopped it so he could pass any but the most exhaustive vetting.

This is not the fault of the geneticist, but rather of the psychologist, who has not yet been able to furnish the geneticist with the description of definite traits of such a character as to make possible the exhaustive analysis of their individual inheritance.

I thought you might like to know that I have just completed an exhaustive search of Stefan Schoenburg and the rest of the Cabbagehead backers.

Lord Diegan grew accustomed to state dinners followed by exhaustive mornings of fielding grievances.

There is a possibility that it was simply a case of hydatidiform or multiple molar pregnancy, elaborated by an exhaustive imagination and superstitious awe.

Nor do exhaustive scans of all variants of Interset code give any clue to what it might mean.

In addition to his exhaustive acquaintance with Sanskrit, and the southern India vernaculars, he had some knowledge of Tibetan, Arabic, Kawi, Javanese and Coptic.

Indian deities and those added in the centuries of development in Tibet, the pantheon of Lamaism is so large that existing accounts fall far short of being exhaustive.