discourse

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1. discourse - Noun

2. discourse - Verb

Meaning

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.

Conversation; talk.

The art and manner of speaking and conversing.

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.

Dealing; transaction.

To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.

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.

To relate something; to tell.

To treat of something in writing and formally.

To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.

To utter or give forth; to speak.

To talk to; to confer with.

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the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic Source: Internet

his treatment of the race question is badly biased Source: Internet

The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England Source: Internet

The author talks about the different aspects of this question Source: Internet

The class discussed Dante's `Inferno' Source: Internet

Abinadi is arrested and brought before King Noah where he gives what is considered a very important discourse in the Book of Mormon (chapters 12-16). Source: Internet

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