Crossword clues for discerned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discern \Dis*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discerned; p. pr. & vb. n. Discerning.] [F. discerner, L. discernere, discretum; dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See Certain, and cf. Discreet.]
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To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms.
--Boyle.A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone.
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To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
--Prov. vii. 7.Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects.
--Beattie.I wake, and I discern the truth.
--Tennyson.Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See Perceive.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: discern)
Usage examples of "discerned".
Three columns are discerned descending from their position, the first towards the division of SIR DAVID BAIRD, the weakest point in the English line, the next towards the centre, the third towards the left.
Through the gauze of descending waters the French soldiery can be discerned climbing to the attack under NEY.
But anon certain strange dark patches in the landscape, flexuous and riband-shaped, are discerned to be moving slowly.
Far to the rear can be discerned NAPOLEON, the Imperial Guard, and MILHAUD'S cuirassiers halted in reserve.
No weapon apertures had been discerned but weapons on an escape pod were considered unlikely.
Other Primes receiving or sending material to Clarf were too busy to query any minor differences they might have discerned in 'porting techniques.
Zainal, whose night vision was superior to the rest of the patrol's, discerned some curious superstructures on the front of the building, and a railed runway leading down into the water.
As he reached the sands, he kept peering westward and barely discerned the distant film of Thread.
Jaxom strained his eyes as the ship glided closer and closer on the calm waters, and let out a jubilant whoop that made the fire-lizards squeak in surprise when he discerned the figure of the Harper standing in the prow, waving to those on shore.
The pies must be just out of the bake oven or surely he would have discerned that fragrance before.
Realizing that the man had discerned that only Sharra lay in the bed, Jaxom sprang, encircling the figure with his arms.
The important question was agitated in their presence, and those ambitious courtiers easily discerned, that it was incumbent on them to second, by their eloquence, the importunate violence of the Caesar.
The sagacious monarch instantly discerned the use and importance of Colchos.
And to prohibit the whole science would be but to censure a hundred passages of Holy Scripture which teach us that the glory and greatness of Almighty God are marvelously discerned in all His works and divinely read in the open book of Heaven.
As Plato discerned, there is a streak of the irrational in the World Soul.