Definition of discourse

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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..

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Speak :: Speak (v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
Dissertator :: Dissertator (n.) One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.
Imparl :: Imparl (v. i.) To hold discourse; to parley.
Vivacity :: Vivacity (n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance..
Atheize :: Atheize (v. i.) To discourse, argue, or act as an atheist..
Synopses :: Synonymy (n.) A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.
Sermon :: Sermon (v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon..
Discourse :: Discourse (v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
End :: End (n.) The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part..
Tongue :: Tongue (n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
Crystallography :: Crystallography (n.) A discourse or treatise on crystallization.
Discourse :: 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..
Imagery :: Imagery (n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
Preface :: Preface (n.) Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks..
Paragraph :: Paragraph (n.) A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark /, but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin..
Member :: Member (n.) A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.
Unity :: Unity (n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition..
Resume :: Resume (v. t.) To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse..
Declamation :: Declamation (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
Discourser :: Discourser (n.) The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
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