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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discover \Dis*cov"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discovered}; p. pr
& vb n. {Discovering}.] [OE. discoveren, discuren, descuren
OF descovrir descouvrir F. d['e]couvrir; des- (L. dis-) +
couvrir to cover. See {Cover}.]
1. To uncover. [Obs.]
Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any
church. --Abp.
Grindal
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).
Go draw aside the curtains, and discover The
several caskets to this noble prince. --Shak.
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity
doth best discover virtue. --Bacon.
We will discover ourselves unto them --1 Sam. xiv.
8.
Discover not a secret to another. --Prov. xxv.
9.
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 --Shak.
4. To manifest without design; to show
The youth discovered a taste for sculpture. --C. J.
Smith.
5. To explore; to examine. [Obs.]
Syn: 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.
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