Both Uses
descry
in
King Lear
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- It was great ignorance, Gloster's eyes being out, To let him live: where he arrives he moves All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone, In pity of his misery, to despatch His nighted life; moreover, to descry The strength o' the enemy.†
Scene 4.5descry = see
- Near and on speedy foot; the main descry Stands on the hourly thought.†
Scene 4.6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(descry) catch sight of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)