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Middle English, from Anglo-French secré, secret, from Latin secretus, from past participle of secernere to separate, distinguish, from se- apart + cernere to sift — more at secede, certain
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Quique omnia cernere debes Leucothoen spectas, et virgine figis in una quos mundo debes oculos, Ovid.
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Tum sane mentis oculus acute incipit cernere, quum primum corporis oculus deflorescit, when our bodily eyes are at worst, generally the eyes of our soul see best.
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Est enim proprium stultitiae aliorum cernere vitia, oblivisci suorum.
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Sed quibus ipse malis careas, quia cernere suave est.
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[5175] Cujus octavum trepidavit aetas, cernere lustrum; to say they are younger than they are.
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Sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.
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Ibi ámissós bovés mágnó cum gaudió cónspéxit; sed Cácum ipsum vix cernere potuit, quod spélunca repléta erat fúmó quem ille móre suó évomébat.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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B. [45] "Adeo ut deficerent a visu, ne cernere possem, Scironis alta."
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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= Compare iv 27 'cernere iam uideor rumpi paene atria _turba_'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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