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Definition of Detects
1. detect [v] - See also: detect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detects
Literary usage of Detects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1870)
"... whether there is not something to be said on the other side. tuted may, or
may not, have the properties intended, but no one detects if they have not. ..."
2. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"CHAPTER XV The Commodore detects the Machinations of the Conspirators, and hires
a Tutor for Peregrine, whom he settles at Winchester School This was not ..."
3. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"Lord Keeper detects plot for incensing the He was impeached on charges of peculation
and corruption*, which were very imperfectly established, ..."
4. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"To which, if such whom he detects for popish physicians, with all those whom he
accuses for popish books, be cast in, they will not make up the tithe of ..."
5. Life of Arthur Lee, LL. D.: Joint Commissioner of the United States to the by Richard Henry Lee, Arthur Lee (1829)
"Dumas of Holland—Intrigues of British secret agents in Paris—Mr. Lee detects and
exposes them—Invitation of the Congress to Dr. Price, to remove to America ..."
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