descrive
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Old French descrivre. See describe.
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descrive (third-person singular simple present descrives, present participle descriving, simple past and past participle descrived)
- (obsolete) To describe.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Let her by proofe of that which she hath fylde
In her owne breast, this Mothers ioy descrive
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- “descrive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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