to separate, set apart, mark off, bound, part, divide:
muro di scerni a nobis: discrimina, quibus ordines
discernerentur, L.: mons, qui finīs eorum
discerneret, S.— Poet.: (saxum) telas auro, to interweave with
gold, V.: Limes litem ut discerneret arvis, i. e. keep
away, V.—P. perf., divided, separated: urbes magno inter se
spatio discretae, L.: ubi discretas insula rumpit
aquas, O.: sedes piorum, retired, H.: septem in ostia Nilus, O.: nec mors discreta
fuisset, nor had we been divided in death, O.—Fig., to
distinguish, discern, know apart: alba et atra: insidiatorem et
petitum insidiis, L.: diem noctemque caelo,
V.: fas atque nefas, H.: suos,
Cs.: quid sit eiusdem generis: pecuniae an famae minus
parceret, S.: nec discernatur, iussu iniussu pugnent, L.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
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