To decide or determine (a matter disputed or doubtful), with simple object, with infinitive or object clause, or intransitive.
To decree (something) by judicial sentence.
To discern; to distinguish or separate by differences (things that differ, or one thing from another).
First attested in late Middle English circa 1425; from the French décerner, from the Latin dēcernō (“I decide, pronounce a decision”), from dē (“of, from, away from”) + cernō (“I separate, distinguish...
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