Fathoming [verb]

We work for the pleasure of working, of fathoming the secrets of nature, and of instructing ourselves.

There is a mystery connected with Griffith's tenure of office which I could never succeed in fathoming.

Trust a woman for fathoming all the shades of doubt which overhang the addresses of a lover!

He was pleased with his own shrewdness in fathoming Gray Stoddard's mysterious motives.

Yet the Princess's most ultimate and affectionate enemies had not succeeded in fathoming the mystery.

To that person is reserved the pleasure of fathoming the intention, of completing the idea adumbrated by the composer.

Deep beyond deep in him will be past our fathoming, but what God means in his relationships with our lives we may know gloriously.

He was far from fathoming the purpose of the prelate in endeavoring to cajole or frighten him into a denial of his own identity.

Long points of light pierced the gloom below the opposite shore, like golden plummets that were slowly fathoming its opaque tide.

Here was another shift of place, hitherto quite unsuspected, to be reckoned with by the astronomer in fathoming sidereal secrets.