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De - Pt| English Dictionary: discoursing | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Discoursed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discoursing}.] 1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] [bd]Have sense or can discourse.[b8] --Dryden. 2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. --Shak. 3. To relate something; to tell. --Shak. 4. To treat of something in writing and formally. | |
