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secern v (literary)

(transitive) (archaic) To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things). (by extension) To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish. (physiology, archaic) Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”) (intransitive) Of a person or thing: to become separated from others. (physiology, rare) To secrete a substance.

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