Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/December 15

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Word of the day
for December 15
secern v (literary)
  1. (transitive)
    1. (archaic) To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things).
    2. (by extension) To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish.
    3. (physiology, archaic) Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”)
  2. (intransitive)
    1. Of a person or thing: to become separated from others.
    2. (physiology, rare) To secrete a substance.
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