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Definition of Descry
1. Verb. Catch sight of.
Generic synonyms: Sight, Spy
Derivative terms: Espial, Spotter, Spotter, Spotting, Spying
Definition of Descry
1. v. t. To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
2. n. Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.
Definition of Descry
1. Verb. (transitive) To see ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To notice carefully; to detect ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Descry
1. to discern [v -SCRIED, -SCRYING, -SCRIES] - See also: discern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descry
Literary usage of Descry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger (1858)
"So, though the story told above The simple deem a tale of love, Yet let the more
sagacious try What secret sense they can descry ; And he that rightly reads ..."
2. English Poetry (1170-1892) by John Matthews Manley, Manly, John Matthews, 1865-1940 (1907)
"As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dullness is ever apt to magnify.
FROM PART III The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of ..."
3. On Some of Life's Ideals: On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings; What Makes by William James (1900)
"... we have been led to acknowledge an inner meaning which pass- eth show, and
which may be present in the lives of others where we least descry it. ..."
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