Part 3197

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

<hw>Dis*course"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Discoursed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Discoursing</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Have sense or can <i>discourse</i>."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Bid me <b>discourse</b>, I will enchant thine ear. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To relate something; to tell.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To treat of something in writing and formally.</def>

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

<hw>Dis*course"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large <b>discoursed</b> in the book. <i>Foxe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To utter or give forth; to speak.</def>

<blockquote>It will <b>discourse</b> mos<?/ eloquent music. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To talk to; to confer with.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to <b>discourse</b> the minister about it. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discourser</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cours"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.</def>

<blockquote>In his conversation he was the most clear <b>discourser</b>. <i>Milward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The writer of a treatise or dissertation.</def>

<blockquote>Philologers and critical <b>discoursers</b>. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discoursive</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cours"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Discursive</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.</def>

<blockquote>The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or <b>discoursive</b> scenes. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; <as>as, a <ex>discoursive</ex> man</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>