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English Dictionary: discourse	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for discourse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
discourse n extended verbal expression in speech or writing an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) Synonym(s): sermon, discourse, preaching an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased" Synonym(s): discussion, treatment, discourse v to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'" Synonym(s): discourse, talk about, discuss carry on a conversation Synonym(s): converse, discourse talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England" Synonym(s): hold forth, discourse, dissertate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discourse \Discourse"\, v. t. 1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.] The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. --Foxe. 2. To utter or give forth; to speak. It will discourse* most eloquent music. --Shak. 3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.] I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. --Evelyn.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discourse \Discourse"\, n. [L. discursus a running to and fro, discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See {Course}.] 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. --South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. --Shak. 2. Conversation; talk. In their discourses after supper. --Shak. Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. --Locke. 3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing. Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. --Shak. 4. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse* on duty. 5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.] Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how We got the victory. --Beau. & Fl.