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- verb Present participle of
decern .
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Examples
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And he being under the same infamy, we decerning before him to be summoned and accused upon the premises, he of evil mind, (as may be presumed) passed to other parts, forth of the realm, suspected and noted of heresy.
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Part II. who if he be not a covering of the eye/7 Gen. 2€.id. to preclude all fecond choices, may yet be a km to them for decerning who are fit to be cnofen; that if they fee fit. to ufe their liberty and Marry; they may yet take the Apoftles reftri&ion with it, i Cor.
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The underftanding fcperates things joyn'd together, and totally employs it felf lit confidering fonae fmall part of the Objeft, without receding on what el ft belongs: to ifc Dfcath is fancied only under the Idea of that ghaftly look a dying Man has, with~ out decerning any thing elfe that accom» panics it.
Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties 1677
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June 20th, 2008 @ 10: 56 am on the other side of the coinage you now have four, almost five stories to submit to more decerning Editors, all at once, and or publish a chapbook style printing at CD … I’ll buy em on Blind Faith alone … you da man Bev!. steve_vernon
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.. 'things: And nob decerning the very marrow and kernel of what is written, they conclude that there u nothing beyond the bone and the fhell.
Apospasmatia Sacra, Or A Collection of Posthumous and Orphan Lectures 1657
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