Discern /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Discerned; p. pr. & vb. n. Discerning

1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.

   To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms.

   A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone.

2. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.

   And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.

   Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects.

   I wake, and I discern the truth.

1. To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

   More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left.

2. To make cognizance. [Obs.]