Meaning of decern | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To decide or determine (a matter disputed or doubtful), with simple object, with infinitive or object clause, or intransitive.
   obsolete, transitive
2. To decree (something) by judicial sentence.
   intransitive, sometimes, transitive
3. To decree by judicial sentence that something be done.
   intransitive, sometimes, transitive
4. 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.
   intransitive, sometimes, transitive
5. To discern; to distinguish or separate by differences (things that differ, or one thing from another).
   obsolete, transitive
6. To distinguish; to discriminate between.
   intransitive, obsolete, transitive
7. To see distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.

Examples

“He purſued Andrew Houſtoun upon his promiſe, to give him the like Sallary for the next year, and in abſence obtained him to be holden as confeſt and Decerned.”

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