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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discover.

Etymologies

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discover +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • The boy replied, “O brother, I know this from the sand170 wherewith I take compt of night and day and from the saying of the ancients, ‘No mystery from Allah is hidden; for the sons of Adam have in them a spiritual virtue which discovereth to them the darkest secrets.’”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Grief for the discovery of some defect of ability is shame, or the passion that discovereth itself in blushing, and consisteth in the apprehension of something dishonourable; and in young men is a sign of the love of good reputation, and commendable: in old men it is a sign of the same; but because it comes too late, not commendable.

    Leviathan 2007

  • To take advice of some few friends, is ever honorable; for lookers – on many times see more than gamesters; and the vale best discovereth the hill.

    The Essays 2007

  • + Great princes affected great monuments; and the fair and larger urns contained no vulgar ashes, which makes that disparity in those which time discovereth among us.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • Potent men digest hardly anything that setteth up a power to bridle their affections; and learned men, anything that discovereth their errors, and thereby their authority: whereas the common people's minds, unless they be tainted with dependence on the potent, or scribbled over with the opinions of their doctors, are like clean paper, fit to receive whatsoever by public authority shall be imprinted in them.

    Leviathan 2007

  • He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • But as Fortune is infinite in her fagaries, never acting disaster so closely, but as cunningly discovereth it againe: so it came to passe, that within a few dayes following, the Grecian Woman that had delivered the poyson to Ninetta, for such another deede of damnation, was apprehended even in the action.

    The Decameron 2004

  • That the discovery of new works and active directions not known before, is the only trial to be accepted of; and yet not that neither, in ease where one particular giveth light to another; but where particulars induce an axiom or observation, which axiom found out discovereth and designeth new particulars.

    Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature 2003

  • That the nature of this trial is not only upon the point, whether the knowledge be profitable or no, but even upon the point whether the knowledge be true or no; not because you may always conclude that the Axiom which discovereth new instances is true, but contrariwise you may safely conclude that if it discover not any new instance it is in vain and untrue.

    Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature 2003

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