- To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last.Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
- To inform against; to accuse.ObsHe was untruly judged to have preached such articles as he was detected of.To discover; find out; lay bare; expose.
