Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Cf. F. discernement,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
L. discern˘ere—dis, thoroughly, and cernĕre, to sift, perceive.
In literature:
The discerning eye of a rider saw the signs of a long, arduous trip.
"Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey
One man of them is certain; one man of them discerns and dares!
"The French Revolution" by Thomas Carlyle
At length the Parsonage was discernible.
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Its workings can be discerned in the experience of us all.
"A Straight Deal" by Owen Wister
The figures were too far for discerning which fired it.
"The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories" by Owen Wister
He discerned fatal ignorance and absurdity between the pompous lines.
"Where the Blue Begins" by Christopher Morley
Are suppositions of this sort the sober admonitions of discerning patriots to a discerning people?
"The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
All I can discern is, that it will, to a dead certainty, turn one way or the other on the day when she passes Noel Vanstone's doors in disguise.
"No Name" by Wilkie Collins
Through all this agitation a discerning eye might have perceived that the public opinion was gradually changing.
"The History of England from the Accession of James II." by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Credit the management of the Gymnase with tack and discernment; will it do to say intelligence?
"A Distinguished Provincial at Paris" by Honore de Balzac
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In poetry:
Within the wind, my untaught ear
The voice of Deity can hear,
And in the fleeting cloud discern
His movements, vast and taciturn;
For in the universe I trace
The wondrous grandeur of His face.
"As The Indian." by Alfred Castner King
The Word which the reason of Plato discerned;
The truth, as whose symbol the Mithra-fire burned;
The soul of the world which the Stoic but guessed,
In the Light Universal the Quaker confessed!
"The Quaker Alumni" by John Greenleaf Whittier
Its rhythmic motion, tuned to time,
Its awful rush, yet sure return,
Make even our dim orb sublime,
And we at last the truth discern,--
With God is neither small nor great,
Nor soon, nor late.
"Life's Trilogy" by John Lawson Stoddard
At last we knew. And when we learned
How he had fallen, Margaret
Wept; and, albeit my eyes were wet,
Within my soul I half discerned
A joy that mingled with regret,
A grief that to relief was turned.
"The Brothers" by Madison Julius Cawein
As envy pines at good possess’d,
So jealously looks forth distress’d
On good that seems approaching;
And, if success his steps attend,
Discerns a rival in a friend,
And hates him for encroaching.
"Friendship" by William Cowper
And this is prayer: from self to turn
Thee-ward, and learn
Our life's veiled angels to discern.
Filled with Thy light
We hate the damning evil, love the right:
Awake with Thee, there is in us no night.
"Praying Always" by Lucy Larcom
In news:
You'd think the press could resist the he said-she said copy when the truth is easy to discern.
Known for its consistent and superior quality, the Merckens brand of premium chocolate and Rainbow coatings have become a top choice among discerning chocolate retail confectioners for more than 85 years.
This selection of 25 works from the collection of Dr Torsten Wiesel, the Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist, is a result of a discerning eye that has ranged across cultures and centuries.
Most enthusiasts can discern a 21-year-old Scotch from its 12-year-old sibling, but why.
A Company Catering To The Needs Of Discerning LGBT Travelers.
Thanks to " Argo ," discerning film fans can finally stop complaining about movies lacking originality.
Sometimes that perspective is more difficult to discern than others.
Anyone who has ever heard Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt on KCRW knows that he is a discerning reader with an eye for detail.
With sushi and gourmet burgers, Splitsville Luxury Lanes, is likely to be right up the alley for bowlers with discerning palates.
All things wedding for the discerning bride -to-be.
Cues that a family medicine or pediatric practice is welcoming to adolescents can be discerned well before the first visit.
Confidence is that rare trait that emerges from within us but is also discernible to an observer.
Memo Cassette 's scores are enigmatically full of symbols that hint toward some kind of rhyme or reason that's hard to discern when following along to the music.
The system is a nice statement on both companies' parts, in that it caters to discerning music enthusiasts who really want a bit more out of their digitally stored music.
It will require a careful reading to discern where and when probable cause or a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity will be required as to cellphones , or if such requirements are relaxed or eroded...
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In science:
We realize that even though small in magnitude, the jet-jet and jet-thermal contributions may still give a discernible feature to the back-to-back correlation of charm-quarks at RHIC.
Heavy Quark Production from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Thus we feel that a high statistics data may still be able to discern the contribution of processes other than initial fusion to the back-to-back correlation.
Heavy Quark Production from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
This may even be discernible for back-to-back correlation of bottom quarks at LHC.
Heavy Quark Production from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
For causes that we have not yet discerned, we sometimes measure spectra that are like what we measured in the first studies of the cavity spectra (blue traces in Fig. 10).
Cavity Control of a Single-Electron Quantum Cyclotron:\\Measuring the Electron Magnetic Moment
At T (cid:28) Tc , the switching current is only weakly dependent on temperature; however the ”phase temperature” is experimentally discernable from the width σs of the switching histograms.
Cavity sideband cooling of the Josephson phase
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