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

What yonder twinkling azure orb do I descry?

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015

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

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