Verb

(en-verb)

To see.

To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.

* Shakespeare

Edmund, I think, is gone to descry / The strength o' the enemy.

* Milton

And now their way to earth they had descried .

* 1719 (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

When I had passed the vale where my bower stood

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To discover; to disclose; to reveal.

* Milton

His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.

Verb

(decid)

To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.

The election will be decided on foreign policies.

We must decide our next move.

Her last-minute goal decided the game.

* Shakespeare

The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.

To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.

You must decide between good and evil.

I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.

* Bible, 1 Kings xx. 40

So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

To cause someone to come to a decision.

* 1920 , , "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (Norton edition, 2005, p. 1537),

It decides me to look into the matter, for if it is worth anyone's while to take so much trouble, there must be something in it.

(obsolete) To cut off; to separate.

* Fuller

Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.