DISCOURSE

discourse

(noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing

discussion, treatment, discourse

(noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; “the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic”; “his treatment of the race question is badly biased”

sermon, discourse, preaching

(noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)

converse, discourse

(verb) carry on a conversation

discourse, talk about, discuss

(verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing; “The author talks about the different aspects of this question”; “The class discussed Dante’s ‘Inferno’”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

discourse (countable and uncountable, plural discourses)

(uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.

(uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.

(countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.

(countable) Any rational expression, reason.

(social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).

(obsolete) Dealing; transaction.

Synonyms

• (expression in words): communication, expression

• (verbal exchange): debate, conversation, discussion, talk

• (formal lengthy exposition of some subject): dissertation, lecture, sermon, study, treatise

• (rational expression): ratiocination

Verb

discourse (third-person singular simple present discourses, present participle discoursing, simple past and past participle discoursed)

(intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.

(intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.

(obsolete, transitive) To debate.

To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.

(obsolete, transitive) To produce or emit (musical sounds).

Synonyms

• (engage in discussion or conversation): converse, talk

• (write or speak formally and at length)

Anagrams

• discoures, ruscoside

Source: Wiktionary

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Dis*course", n. Etym: [L. discursus a running to and fro, discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See Course.]

1. 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. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.

2. Conversation; talk. In their discourses after supper. Shak. Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. Locke.

3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing. Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. Shak.

4. 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.

5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.] Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how We got the victory. Beau. & Fl.

Dis*course", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Discoursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Discoursing.]

1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] "Have sense or can discourse." Dryden.

2. 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. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Shak.

3. To relate something; to tell. Shak.

4. To treat of something in writing and formally.

Dis*course", v. t.

1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.] The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe.

2. To utter or give forth; to speak. It will discourse mosShak.

3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.] I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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