Discarnate
(Dis*car"nate) a. [L. dis- + carnatus fleshy, fr. caro, carnis, flesh.] Stripped of flesh.
[Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.
Discase
(Dis*case") v. t. To strip; to undress. Shak.
Discede
(Dis*cede") v. i. [L. discedere; dis- + cedere to yield.] To yield or give up; to depart. [Obs.]
I dare not discede from my copy a tittle.
Fuller. Discept
(Dis*cept") v. i. [L. disceptare.] To debate; to discuss. [R.]
One dissertates, he is candid;
Two must discept, — has distinguished.
R. Browning. Disceptation
(Dis`cep*ta"tion) n. [L. disceptatio.] Controversy; disputation; discussion. [Archaic]
Verbose janglings and endless disceptations.
Strype. Disceptator
(Dis`cep*ta"tor) n. [L.] One who arbitrates or decides. [R.] Cowley.
Discern
(Dis*cern") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discerned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Discerning.] [F. discerner, L.
discernere, discretum; dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See Certain, and cf. Discreet.]
1. 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). 2. 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
(Dis*cern"), v. i.
1. 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. 2. To make cognizance. [Obs.] Bacon.
Discernance
(Dis*cern"ance) n. Discernment. [Obs.]
Discerner
(Dis*cern"er) n. One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a
discerner of truth, of right and wrong.
A great observer and discerner of men's natures.
Clarendon.
