decern

decern definitions

verb
  • transferred sense 

  • 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. 

  • Decree by judicial sentence that something be done. 

  • intransitive 

  • with simple object 

  • See distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.