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descry

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6 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈskɹaɪ/Part of speech verbSorted cdersyStarts with DEnds with Y0 clues
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  1. catch sight of

Word origin

From Middle English descrien, descriven in the 14th century already had the dual sense of "to proclaim, announce, make known" and "to see, discern, discover". On the one hand, the Middle English word is a loan Old French descrier (“to proclaim, announce, cry”), from des- + crier (“shout, cry”); in this case, the word is a doublet of decry, which was loaned from the same French source in the 17th century.

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  • The kalender, […] hath late deſcry'd / That evill affected planet Mars, ally'd / To temporizing Mercury, conjoyn'd / I'th'houſe of Death; […]
  • His Body was found almost naked in the field, for his Purple Robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him, unwilling to be found.
  • VVe vvere deſcried, theyle mock vs novv dounright.

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