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1 definition found 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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