Decern

Quick meaning: Decern is a verb meaning To see distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.

Meaning

To see distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly transitive, sometimes intransitive, Scots law) To decree (something) by judicial sentence.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To discern; to distinguish or separate by differences (things that differ, or one thing from another).
3. (obsolete, chiefly transitive) To decide or determine (a matter disputed or doubtful), with simple object, with infinitive or object clause, or intransitive.

Word Forms

• decerns
• decerning
• decerned

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include determinate, decide, discern, discide, undecide, secern.

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