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third-person singular simple present discerps, present participle discerping, simple past and past participle discerped
To tear into pieces; to rend. quotations examples
They would therefore ſay, that tho' these two, the father and the son, are different divine personalities, yet they cannot be called two Gods, or two godheads; for this would be discerping the deity or godhead , which is equally absurd
1743, William Stukeley, Abury: A Temple of the British Druids
To separate; to disunite. quotations examples
[…] to reascend the place from whence they came, and rejoin that Substance from whence they were discerped […]
1738, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses