secern

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things).

   “'[T]is not ſo much a local and bodily ſecerning our ſelves from evil men that God requires (as the Donatiſts falſely taught) but a ſpiritual ſeparation in mind and affections, and from their ſins, more than from their perſons.”

2. fiil To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish.
3. fiil Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”).

   “[T]he joint-glands themſelves grovv rigid, and ſecern leſs of their proper humour. Hence vvhen the gout falls upon people in years, it proves very ſevere, for vvant of a neceſſary quantity of that oleaginous matter to extinguiſh it.”

4. fiil Of a person or thing: to become separated from others.
5. fiil To secrete a substance.

   “[…] Birds bee commonly better Meat than Beaſts, becauſe their Fleſh doth aſſimilate more finely, and ſecerneth more ſubtilly.”