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<hw>Dis*cour"age*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.</def>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Discouragement</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cour"age*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>descouragement</ets>, F. <ets>d\'82couragement</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; <as>as, the revolution was commenced under every possible <ex>discouragement</ex></as>.</def> "<i>Discouragements</i> from vice."

<i>Swift.</i>

<h1>Discourager</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cour"a*ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who discourages.</def>

<blockquote>The promoter of truth and the <b>discourager</b> of error. <i>Sir G. C. Lewis.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discouraging</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cour"a*ging</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Causing or indicating discouragement.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Dis*cour"a*ging*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Discoure</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*coure"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To discover.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>That none might her <b>discoure</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discourse</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*course"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>discursus</ets> a running to and fro, discourse, fr. <ets>discurrere</ets>, <ets>discursum</ets>, to run to and fro, to discourse; <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>currere</ets> to run: cf. F. <ets>discours</ets>. See <er>Course</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Difficult, strange, and harsh to the <b>discourses</b> of natural reason. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Sure he that made us with such large <b>discourse</b>, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Conversation; talk.</def>

<blockquote>In their <b>discourses</b> after supper. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious <b>discourse</b>. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The art and manner of speaking and conversing.</def>

<blockquote>Of excellent breeding, admirable <b>discourse</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; <as>as, the preacher gave us a long <ex>discourse</ex> on duty</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Dealing; transaction.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Good Captain Bessus, tell us the <b>discourse</b> Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how We got the victory. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>