Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who discovers or comes in sight of; a discoverer; a detector.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who descries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
person whodescries .
Etymologies
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From Old French descrier ("to proclaim, announce, cry").
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Examples
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But no sign of man showed to the descrier - no, not a blower of the fire.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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At last Destiny brought us to an island, fair and verdant, in trees abundant, with yellow-ripe fruits luxuriant, and flowers fragrant and birds warbling soft descant; and streams crystalline and radiant; but no sign of man showed to the descrier, no, not a blower of the fire. [
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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