Definition of discourse

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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..

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Hang :: Hang (n.) Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse..
Tongue :: Tongue (n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.
Dolorous :: Dolorous (a.) Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses..
Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Thread :: Thread (n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse..
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Uninterested :: Uninterested (a.) Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration..
Saw :: Saw (v. t.) Something said; speech; discourse.
Thou :: Thou (v. i.) To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.
Amphibology :: Amphibology (n.) A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term..
Discourse :: 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..
Speak :: Speak (v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
Thine :: Thine (pron. & a.) A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers..
Preface :: Preface (v. t.) To introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse..
Sermon :: Sermon (n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer..
Oration :: Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill..
Deliberative :: Deliberative (n.) A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined..
Prologue :: Prologue (n.) The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance.
Vivacity :: Vivacity (n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance..
Talk :: Talk (n.) The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more..
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