Definition of Descried

1. Verb. (past of descry) ¹

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Definition of Descried

1. descry [v] - See also: descry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Descried

descrescendo
descrescendos
descriable
describability
describable
describableness
describe
described
described video
describent
describents
describer
describers
describes
describing
descried (current term)
descrier
descriers
descries
description
description logic
descriptional
descriptions
descriptive
descriptive-geometry
descriptive adjective
descriptive anatomy
descriptive anthropology
descriptive clause
descriptive ethics

Literary usage of Descried

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"... fury, jealousy, despair, Vex every eye, and every bosom tear ; Their foul deformities by all descried, No maid to flatter, and no paint to hide. ..."

2. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"... flight is descried ; and there, again, is the delirious Piranesi, busy on his aspiring labours : and so on, until the unfinished stairs and the hopeless ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(7) imperfectly descried a frozen ocean that lay beyond the Baltic sea, and beyond the peninsula, or islands,(l)*of Scandinavia. ..."

4. Travels in North America During the Years 1834, 1835 & 1836: Including a by Charles Augustus Murray (1839)
"Difficulty in collecting our Horses.—A Buffalo shot.— Supply of Meat A Party of Indians descried. — Plans to be adopted in the coming Encounter. ..."

5. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"Barbadoes descried.—View of the Island from the Sea.— Carlisle Bay His Majesty's ship Shannon.— Bridgetown.—Enmore.—Population and produce of Barbadoes. ..."

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