decern (English, verb)
expansion: decern (third-person singular simple present decerns, present participle decerning, simple past and past participle decerned)
Senses:
glosses: To decide or determine (a matter disputed or doubtful), with simple object, with infinitive or object clause, or intransitive.
tags: obsolete
transitive
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To decree (something) by judicial sentence.
To decree by judicial sentence that something be done.
tags: intransitive
sometimes
transitive
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To decree (something) by judicial sentence.
To decree a person etc. to be or to do something by judicial sentence. (in the phrase “to decern in”, obsolete) To mulct in by decree of court.
tags: intransitive
sometimes
transitive
glosses: To discern; to distinguish or separate by differences (things that differ, or one thing from another).
tags: obsolete
transitive
glosses: To discern; to distinguish or separate by differences (things that differ, or one thing from another).
To distinguish; to discriminate between.
tags: intransitive
obsolete
transitive
glosses: To see distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.
Forms:
form: decerns
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decerning
tags: participle
present
form: decerned
tags: participle
past
form: decerned
tags: past