See Also: Discernment(medicine)
discernment(dictionary)
discernment(dictionary)

purpuric (iou) and discernment (iou)


purpuric (iou)



purpuric adjective. E19.
[from Latin purpura (see PURPLE adjective & noun) + -IC.]
Chemistry. purpuric acid, the hypothetical parent acid of purpurates. E19.
Medicine. Of, pertaining to, or of the Nature of purpura; (of a disease) marked by a purple rash. M19.

discernment (iou)



discernment noun. Also decernment. L16.
[from DISCERN + -MENT.]
The act of distinguishing; a distinction. L16-M17.
The faculty of discerning, discrimination; keenness of intellectual perception; insight. L16.
The act of discerning; intellectual perception. L17.
B. Jowett The savage..has a quicker discernment of the track than the civilized man.