Verb (used with object) : They discerned a sail on the horizon. ,He is incapable of discerning right from wrong. From Dictionary.com.
This isn't discerned from the observations you mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved] Reference
The imagery is pretty amazing – this, for example, can hardly be discerned from a photo of a real person. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Digital Images and Turing Tests] Reference
But what surprised me the most concerning the Devil can be discerned from the following passage in the book. From Wordnik.com. [Mikhail A. Bulgakov - Master and Margarita (Book Review)] Reference
Not much is known about Watchmen: The Trailer, other than what can be discerned from the credits on the short, now appearing on YouTube. From Wordnik.com. [Who Watches The Watchmen Fan Films? | Fan Cinema Today] Reference
Spiritual things are spiritually discerned, that is, experienced things are discerned by experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference
I will name, the 'discerned' and the 'discernible.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
John Paul claimed that he had "discerned" that Maciel was innocent. From Wordnik.com. [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference
Howard Dean discerned what liberals want: attitude. From Wordnik.com. [2003: Not In Our Interests] Reference
And now doctors have discerned a new set of dangers. From Wordnik.com. [When The Heart Goes, The Mind Follows] Reference
He is discerned, and his malice is felt and known as never before. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Presently, as if she discerned and did not disdain us, -- wiser than. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Feeling was discerned not to be so dreadfully dangerous as was supposed. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Soon after I discerned the one body, my brother and I visited St. James. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
Wesley's time, so far as we know, discerned the one body and the unity of. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
On we dashed, until we heard a challenging voice, and discerned a French poilu. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
"The things of the Spirit ... are spiritually discerned" (I Cor.ii. 14), says Paul. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Science taught us that reality is only that which can be discerned by the five senses. From Wordnik.com. [Elisa Medhus, M.D.: A Skeptic's Journey Through Grief] Reference
The night was dark: beyond the circle of the burning embers nothing could be discerned. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
But he stopped using the text after he discerned "an undercurrent of a religious nature.". From Wordnik.com. [Scientology In The Schools] Reference
Garcia was evidently, as the listening detective discerned, a very shrewd, quick-witted man. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
His deadened and depraved attention discerned only the disagreeable and ugly side of a work of art. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
What their babies mean to the new mothers of Sarajevo can often be discerned in the names they give them. From Wordnik.com. [Sarajevo's New Boom In Babies] Reference
Good estimates are hard to come by for obvious reasons, but evidence can be discerned in related statistics. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wives Club] Reference
The detective started to follow the man, and speedily discerned that the stealthy prowler was the man Garcia. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
All of the interior office doors were closed and no light could be discerned through the narrow gaps beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [French Vanilla Death - Prima Parte] Reference
High above the direct line of march could be discerned the black puffs of enemy timed shrapnel bursting in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
His penetrating genius easily discerned the great advantages which would accrue from a successful foreign settlement. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
At the end of the station, blinding with soot and dust, a small rainbow could be discerned, not larger than one's hand. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He discerned the Cuban's purpose; the man meant to take the girl to Cuba, perchance, to make her his wife, and why not?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
Then through the starlight, occasionally a mysterious figure could be dimly discerned stealing silently toward the boats. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
Parents, he discerned, are uneasy about their children's taste in computer games, but have no simple way to test the products. From Wordnik.com. [Surf's Up] Reference
Our readers have already discerned the truth; but we will make plain the incident which led up to the scene we are about describing. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
While out walking one day the next summer after he discerned the one body, he fell into conversation with a man about the Scriptures. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
Not a thing could be discerned, and by looking at the water, which moved with the schooner, it did not seem as though any motion was made. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
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