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Definition of Discovert
1. a. Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
2. n. An uncovered place or part.
Definition of Discovert
1. Noun. (obsolete) An uncovered place or part. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Discovert
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Discovert
1. Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow. Origin: Cf. F. Decouvert uncovered, OF. Descovert. See Discover, Covert. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discovert
Literary usage of Discovert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"CHAPTER IV ON SOME CRITICS OF THIS discovert Psychology The English psychologists
who first as a solvent, disintegrated the idea of substance, ..."
2. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"THE SECOND discovert OF AMERICA "We are beginning to realize that the Civil War
marks a dividing line in American history as sharp and definitive as that ..."
3. Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1891)
"ON LAWS IN GENERAL, AND THE ORDER OF THEIR discovert. [The following was contained
in the first edition of First Principles. ..."
4. Bell's British Theatre by John Bell (1797)
"THE discovert the work of Mrs. FRANCES SHERIDAN, an r of very exquisite talents,
from which, no doubt, ic measure, are derived the abilities, ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"THE ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC discovert. MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS. THE UNION BETWEEN
SCIENCE AND COMMERCE. IT is one of the characteristics of the present age ..."
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