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<blockquote>A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not <b>discern</b> from a right stone. <i>Robynson (More's Utopia).</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; <as>as, to <ex>discern</ex> a difference</as>.</def>

<blockquote>And beheld among the simple ones, I <b>discerned</b> among the youths, a young man void of understanding. <i>Prov. vii. 7.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to <b>discern</b> the minute texture of visible objects. <i>Beattie.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I wake, and I <b>discern</b> the truth. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See <er>Perceive</er>.</syn>

<h1>Discern</h1> <Xpage=419>

<hw>Dis*cern"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; <as>as, to <ex>discern</ex> between good and evil, truth and falsehood</as>.</def>

<blockquote>More than sixscore thousand that cannot <b>discern</b> between their right hand their left. <i>Jonah iv. 11.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make cognizance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Discernance</h1> <Xpage=419>

<hw>Dis*cern"ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Discernment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Discerner</h1> <Xpage=419>

<hw>Dis*cern"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; <as>as, a <ex>discerner</ex> of truth, of right and wrong</as>.</def>

<blockquote>A great observer and <b>discerner</b> of men's natures. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discernible</h1> <Xpage=419>

<hw>Dis*cern"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>discernibilis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; <as>as, a star is <ex>discernible</ex> by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is <ex>discernible</ex> by the understanding.</as></def>

<blockquote>The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was <b>discernible</b> to the last in his temper and deportment. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Perceptible; distinguishable; apparent; visible; evident; manifest.</syn>

<h1>Discernibleness</h1> <Xpage=419>

<hw>Dis*cern"i*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being discernible.</def>

<h1>Discernibly</h1> <Xpage=419>

<hw>Dis*cern"i*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.</def>

<i>Hammond.</i>

<h1>Discerning</h1> <Xpage=419>

<hw>Dis*cern"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.</def>