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  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of discern.

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Examples

  • Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 2008

  • Greece train'd thee wise: this well hast thou discern'd.

    Iphigenia in Tauris 2008

  • Greece train'd thee wise: this well hast thou discern'd.

    Iphigenia in Tauris 2008

  • Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 2008

  • And clearly discern'd, by a glow-worm's pale light,

    Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Various

  • Grotius, soon discern'd this inclination in him: for in his dedication of his immortal and scarce ever to be parallel'd book, _De Jure Belli

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • All this while the first red spot of blood grows bigger and solider, till at length it becomes {85} a fleshy substance, and, by its figure, may easily be discern'd to be the heart; which as yet hath no other inclosure but the substance of the egg.

    Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 Various

  • Between the avenue of casks and bins I stumbled toward the door and lantern that were just to be discern'd at the far end of the cellar.

    The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • 'Twas well 'tis a dull fellow, he could not [but] have discern'd else that I was strangely overjoyed with it, and earnest to have it; for though the poor fellow made what haste he could to untie his bag, I did nothing but chide him for being so slow.

    The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901

  • 'Twas well 'tis a dull fellow, he could not but have discern'd else that I was strangely overjoyed with it, and earnest to have it; for though the poor fellow made what haste he could to untie his bag, I did nothing but chide him for being so slow.

    Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

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