Discern

Discern (discern)
v. t.	(?)
Dis*cern"
[imp. ** p. p.* Discerned (?)] p. pr. ** vb. n.* Discerning.] [F. discerner, L. discernere, discretum] dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See Certain

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. Robynson (More's Utopia).

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.

Discern

Discern (discern)
v. i.
Dis*cern"

To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. Jonah iv. 11.

To make cognizance.

[Obs.] Bacon.

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