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Exordium :: Exordium (n.) A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration..

Decency :: Decency (n.) The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty..

Vermeology :: Vermeology (n.) A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.

Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages..

Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection..

Epilogue :: Epilogue (n.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion..

Compact :: Compact (p. p. & a) Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse..

Discouraging :: Discouraging (a.) Causing or indicating discouragement.

Thermology :: Thermology (n.) A discourse on, or an account of, heat..

Purpose :: Purpose (n.) Proposal to another; discourse.

Trialogue :: Trialogue (n.) A discourse or colloquy by three persons.

Thread :: Thread (n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse..

Subrector :: Subreader (n.) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon..

Discursion :: Discursion (n.) The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought..

Enlargement :: Enlargement (n.) Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument.

Morality :: Morality (n.) A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII..

Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..

Former :: Former (a.) Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument..

Discoursing :: Discoursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discours.

Paleology :: Paleology (n.) The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; archaeology ..

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