descry

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In ancient Egypt, seekers after spiritual guidance could spend a night in incubation, which was a special institutionalised sleep undertaken in the temples of the gods precisely in order to descry meaning in the dark.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2018

Still, there are trends and changes to descry: To the usual surprising degree, great minds are thinking alike, small ones running in the same gutter.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2011

Was the distribution of shot times entirely random, or were there any local or global patterns to descry: longies with longies, middies alternating with shorties, etc.?

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2010

As a result of the decision, businessmen could descry trouble ahead for dozens of big and little U.S. companies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dimly through the mists they could descry the long arm of the mountains rising on their left.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien