Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Scots law, to decree; judge; adjudge.
- To discern; discriminate.
- In Scots law, to decree; pass judgment: an essential word in all decrees and interlocutors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To perceive, discern, or decide.
- transitive verb (Scots Law) To decree; to adjudge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb
Decide ;determine ;decree . - verb
Discern .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not known nationally for his genius,. he did however decern the intrinsic logic and has as far as I know,. not blown up anything or anyone else since.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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Not known nationally for his genius,. he did however decern the intrinsic logic and has as far as I know,. not blown up anything or anyone else since.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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As you read their blogs, it is sometimes gramatically impossible to decern if they ever went to school.
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The fact that democrats cannot decern the difference between the reason for "outrage" of this administration's behavior and their own behavior in the 1990s shows further among many other things why I'll never be able to vote for them.
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It happened at one time he heard his mother (for see neither of them could, as to decern in so dark a place) bemoan her condition.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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God, and to our covenants, any considering person may decern.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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Affliction upon me In my old Age: and Acording to our best observation we could not decern that shee knewe what we came for before we tould her
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It is much more elusive to track or decern but equally as valid.
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It is much more elusive to track or decern but equally as valid.
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It is much more elusive to track or decern but equally as valid.
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