discure
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See discover.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]discure (third-person singular simple present discures, present participle discuring, simple past and past participle discured)
- (obsolete) To discover; to reveal.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42:
- I will, if please you it discure, assay / To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)