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3. Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. [R.]

Dis*cours"ive, n. The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason. [R.] Feltham.

Dis*cour"te*ous (?; see Courteous, 277), a. [Pref. dis- + courteous: cf. OF. discortois.] Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.

Dis*cour"te*sy (?), n. [Pref. dis- + courtesy: cf. OF. descourtoisie.] Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Herbert.

Dis*court"ship (?), n. Want of courtesy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Disc"ous (?), a. [L. discus disk. See Disk.] Disklike; discoid.

Dis*cov"e*nant (?), v. t. To dissolve covenant with.

Dis*cov"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discovered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Discovering.] [OE. discoveren, discuren, descuren, OF. descovrir, descouvrir, F. découvrir; des- (L. dis-) + couvrir to cover. See Cover.] 1. To uncover. [Obs.]

Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church.

Abp. Grindal.

2. To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).

Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince.

Shak.

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Bacon.

We will discover ourselves unto them.

1 Sam. xiv. 8.

Discover not a secret to another.

Prov. xxv. 9.

3. To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.

Some to discover islands far away.

Shak.

4. To manifest without design; to show.

The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.

C. J. Smith.