Descried vs Descries - What's the difference?
descried | descries |
(descry)
To see.
To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* 1719 (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
To discover; to disclose; to reveal.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between descried and descries
is that descried is (descry) while descries is (descry).descried
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*descry
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(en-verb)- Edmund, I think, is gone to descry / The strength o' the enemy.
- And now their way to earth they had descried .
- When I had passed the vale where my bower stood
- His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.