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discernible, a.|dɪˈzɜːnɪb(ə)l, -s-|
Also 6–8 discernable, (7 discerneable, decerneable).
[orig. a. F. discernable, f. discerner; after middle of 17th c. conformed to the L. form discernibilis, f. discernĕre to discern: see -ble.]
1. Capable of being discerned; perceptible:
a. by the sight: Visible, that can be descried.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. Pref., If the godly hadde then sought any discernable forme with their eies. 1597Hooker Tract. & Serm. in Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii. (1617) 363 When I behold with mine eyes some small scarce discernable Graine or Seed. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 112 The Cathedral easily discernable by Mariners as they sail along. 1748Anson's Voy. i. v. 43 It is scarce discernible at the distance of ten leagues. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt ii, There was the slightest possible quiver discernible across Jermyn's face.
b. by other senses. rare.
1665Hooke Microgr. 212 Nor did it cause the least discernable pain. 1684–5Boyle Min. Waters 83, I did not find..the Purging Springs..to have any discernible Acidity. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xiii. 67 A discernible weight. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxx, The buzz and tread and the fitfully discernible voices.
c. by the understanding.
1620Sanderson Serm. I. 142 Hypocrisie is spun of a fine thred, and is not easily discernable, without very diligent examination. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. v. rule iv. §1 When we are in a perceiued, discernible state of danger. 1754Edwards Freed. Will i. iv. (ed. 4) 32 That discernible and obvious course of events. 1863E. V. Neale Anal. Th. & Nat. 181 Under all their differences there would be discernible a principle of unity.
†2. Distinguishable (from something else). Obs. (Cf. discern v. 2.)
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 2 If..any man affirme that true Judgement cannot be severed from true valour, yet ordinarily the one doth appeere more discernable from the other in divers subjects. 1670Walton Lives iii. 220 He never [laboured]..to get glory to himself; but glory only to God: which intention, he would often say, was as discernable in a Preacher, as a Natural from an Artificial beauty.
†3. actively. Capable of discerning. Obs. rare.
1603Daniel Panegyric to King lxvii, God..Hath..framed thy heart Discernable of all apparencies.
Hence diˈscernibleness, the quality of being discernible.
1727Bailey vol. II, Discernibleness, visibleness. 1881J. Cairns Unbelief 18th C. vi. 270 The concession he makes as to the discernibleness of Creation. 1890J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. ix. 160 Discernibleness involves negation. We should not know what warmth is, were there no cold. |