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								Middle English, from Anglo-French secré, secret, from Latin secretus, from past participle of secernere to separate, distinguish, from se- apart + cernere to sift — more at secede, certain 
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								Quique omnia cernere debes Leucothoen spectas, et virgine figis in una quos mundo debes oculos, Ovid. 
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								Tum sane mentis oculus acute incipit cernere, quum primum corporis oculus deflorescit, when our bodily eyes are at worst, generally the eyes of our soul see best. 
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								Est enim proprium stultitiae aliorum cernere vitia, oblivisci suorum. 
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								Sed quibus ipse malis careas, quia cernere suave est. 
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								[5175] Cujus octavum trepidavit aetas, cernere lustrum; to say they are younger than they are. 
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								Sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est. 
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								Ibi ámissós bovés mágnó cum gaudió cónspéxit; sed Cácum ipsum vix cernere potuit, quod spélunca repléta erat fúmó quem ille móre suó évomébat. Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland 
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								B. [45] "Adeo ut deficerent a visu, ne cernere possem, Scironis alta." The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides 
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								= Compare iv 27 'cernere iam uideor rumpi paene atria _turba_'. The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid 
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