Discourse(n.) 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.
Discourse(n.) Conversation; talk.
Discourse(n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Discourse(n.) 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.
Discourse(n.) Dealing; transaction.
Discourse(v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Discourse(v. i.) 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.
Discourse(v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
Discourse(v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
Discourse(v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
Discourse(v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
Discourse(v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
Discoursed(imp. & p. p.) of Discourse
Discourser(n.) One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
Discourser(n.) The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
Discoursing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourse
Discoursive(a.) Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
Discoursive(a.) Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
Discoursive(a.) Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man.
Discoursive(n.) The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason.
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