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Dis*course" (?), 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.]
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Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South.
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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.
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2. Conversation; talk.
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In their discourses after supper. Shak.
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Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. Locke.
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3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
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Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. Shak.
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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.
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5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.]
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Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse
Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how
We got the victory. Beau. & Fl.
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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.] “Have sense or can discourse.” Dryden.
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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.
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Shak.
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3. To relate something; to tell. Shak.
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4. To treat of something in writing and formally.
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Dis*course", v. t. 1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.]
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The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe.
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2. To utter or give forth; to speak.
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It will discourse most eloquent music. Shak.
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3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.]
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I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn.
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