i Register
In some senses, descry is marked as literary. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To announce a discovery: to disclose; to reveal.
The kalender, […] hath late deſcry'd / That evill affected planet Mars, ally'd / To temporizing Mercury, conjoyn'd / I'th'houſe of Death; […]
His Body was found almost naked in the field, for his Purple Robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him, unwilling to be found.
To see, especially from afar; to discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.
VVe vvere deſcried, theyle mock vs novv dounright.
Wee haue descryed vpon our neighbouring / shore, a portlie saile of ships make hitherward.