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verb

Discover v. t. (past & past part. discovered; pres. part. discovering)

1.

To uncover. (Obs.) "Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church."

2.

To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown). (Archaic) "Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince." "Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue." "We will discover ourselves unto them." "Discover not a secret to another."

3.

To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect. "Some to discover islands far away."

4.

To manifest without design; to show. "The youth discovered a taste for sculpture."

5.

To explore; to examine. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To disclose; bring out; exhibit; show; manifest; reveal; communicate; impart; tell; espy; find; out; detect. To Discover, Invent. We discover what existed before, but remained unknown; we invent by forming combinations which are either entirely new, or which attain their end by means unknown before. Columbus discovered America; Newton discovered the law of gravitation; Whitney invented the cotton gin; Galileo invented the telescope.

Discover v. i. To discover or show one's self. (Obs.) "This done, they discover." "Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world."

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"Discover" Quotes from Famous Books

... nature and mind, necessity and free-will, and it will have to be determined by philosophers rather than by scholars. Unless appearances deceive us, it is not the tendency of modern philosophy to isolate human nature, and to separate it by impassable barriers from nature at large, but rather to discover the bridges which lead from one bank to the other, and to lay bare the hidden foundations which, deep beneath the surface, connect the two opposite shores. It is, in fact, easy to see that the old medival discussions on necessity and free-will are turning up ...

— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... and humane, having suffered as a child from the tyranny of adults, he demands the tenderest care and sympathy for children, a patient study of their characteristics, a gentle, progressive leading of them to discover for themselves rather than a cramming of them with facts. The first moral education should be negative,—no preaching of virtue and truth, but shielding from vice and error. He says: "Take the very reverse of the current practice, and you will almost always ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord

... determined to read the book over again on the first opportunity to discover what I seemed like to other people. The heroine is supposed to be very pretty and charming, but personally I had thought her rather silly, so I did not know whether to feel complimented or not. I determined to introduce the subject to Lorna, ...

— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... Protestant and Catholic because statistics are kept according to the religious creed of the people; and we discover that, whilst among the Catholic portion of the empire there is but a percentage of six and a half of illegitimate births, among the Protestants it runs up to ten per cent. And the same remark ...

— The Faith of Our Fathers • James Cardinal Gibbons

... embracing the religious state, rather to free herself from importunity, than with any wish to consecrate her life to God. No wonder that with her heart, and hopes and thoughts in the world, she should have been unable to appreciate, or even to discover the hidden happiness of her quiet cloistered home. No wonder that the days should have seemed long the observances wearisome, the duties monotonous, and uninteresting. But, oh! the wondrous power ...

— The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation • "A Religious of the Ursuline Community"

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