Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours.
Milton, Paradise Lost, v. 486.
You, being by nature given to melancholic discoursing, do easilier yield to such imaginations.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 830.
The other gods, and knights-at-arms, all slept, but only Jove
Sweet slumber seized not; he discoursed how best he might approve
His vow made for Achilles’ grace.
Chapman, Homer’s Iliad, b. ii.
Discover. This word has lost the sense of uncover, which once it had, and in which it occurs several times in our Bible.
Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church, chancel or chapel, or any part of them.—Archbishop Grindal, Articles of Enquiry, 1576.
The voice of the Lord discovereth the forests.—Ps. xxix. 9. A.V. and P.B.V.