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Discourse
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
(5):
(n.) Conversation; talk.
(6):
(n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
(7):
(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.
(8):
(n.) Dealing; transaction.
(9):
(v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
(10):
(v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
(11):
(v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
(12):
(v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Discourse'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/discourse.html. 1828.
