LekhoriLekhoriTo announce a discovery: to disclose; to reveal.
The kalender, […] hath late deſcry'd / That evill affected planet Mars, ally'd / To temporizing Mercury, conjoyn'd / I'th'houſe of Death; […]
To see, especially from afar; to discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.
VVe vvere deſcried, theyle mock vs novv dounright.
From Middle English descrien, descriven in the 14th century already had the dual sense of "to proclaim, announce, make known" and "to see, discern, discover". On the one hand, the Middle English word ...
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