Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Detect

Detect (de*tekt") , adjective

[Latin detectus, past participle of detegere to uncover, detect; de + tegere to cover. See Tegument.]

Detected. [Obsolete] — Fabyan

Detect (de*tekt") , transitive verb

1.
To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.
Plain good intention... is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last. — Burke
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Pope
2.
To inform against; to accuse. [Obsolete]
He was untruly judged to have preached such articles as he was detected of. — Sir T. More