descry
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French descrier (“to proclaim, announce, cry”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪ
[edit] Verb
descry (third-person singular simple present descries, present participle descrying, simple past and past participle descried)
- (transitive) To see
- (transitive) To notice carefully; to detect
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- When I had passed the vale where my bower stood...I came within view of the sea...and it being a very clear day, I fairly descried land - whether an island or a continent I could not tell; but it lay very high, extending ... at a very great distance...
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
[edit] Translations
to notice carefully; to detect
[edit] External links
- descry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- descry in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- descry at OneLook Dictionary Search
