secern (English, verb)
expansion: secern (third-person singular simple present secerns, present participle secerning, simple past and past participle secerned)
expansion: (literary)
Senses:
glosses: To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things).
tags: archaic
literary
transitive
glosses: To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish.
tags: broadly
literary
transitive
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”).
tags: archaic
literary
transitive
glosses: Of a person or thing: to become separated from others.
tags: intransitive
literary
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: To secrete a substance.
tags: intransitive
literary
rare
Forms:
form: secerns
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: secerning
tags: participle
present
form: secerned
tags: participle
past
form: secerned
tags: past