attract vs decern

attract

verb
  • To incur. 

  • To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure. 

  • To pull toward without touching. 

decern

verb
  • intransitive 

  • 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. 

  • with simple object 

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

How often have the words attract and decern occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )