Discern
Discern , transitive verb
[French discerner, Latin discernere, discretum; dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See Certain, and compare Discreet.]
1.
To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms.
A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone.
2.
To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
Our unassisted sight... is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects.
I wake, and I discern the truth.
Discern , intransitive verb
1.
To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left.
2.
To make cognizance. [Obsolete] — Bacon