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Definition
to notice or understand something — often something that is not obvious
- It was a fog so thick, remembered a soldier, that one "could scarcely discern a man at six yards distance."p. 191.2
- If there are spots on his character, they are like the spots on the sun, only discernible by the magnifying powers of a telescope.p. 290.6
There are no more uses of "discern" in 1776.
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