Hypertext Webster Gateway: "detected"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Detect \De*tect"\ (d[-e]*t[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Detected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Detecting}.]
1. To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light;
as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake
in an account.

Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered
at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at
last. --Burke.

Like following life through creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect. --Pope.

2. To inform against; to accuse. [Obs.]

He was untruly judged to have preached such articles
as he was detected of. --Sir T. More.

Syn: To discover; find out; lay bare; expose.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

detected
adj 1: perceived or discerned; "the detected micrometeoritic
material" [ant: {undetected}]
2: perceived with the mind; "he winced at the detected flicker
of irony in her voice"


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