noun. Verbal expression in speech or writing.

noun. Verbal exchange or conversation.

noun. A formal, lengthy treatment of a subject, either written or spoken.

noun. The process or power of reasoning.

intransitive verb. To speak or write formally and at length. synonym: speak.

intransitive verb. To engage in conversation or discussion; converse.

intransitive verb. To narrate or discuss.

noun. A running over a subject in speech; hence, a communication of thoughts by words; expression of ideas; mutual intercourse; talk; conversation.

noun. A running over in the mind of premises and deducing of conclusions; the exercise of, or an act of exercising, the logical or reasoning faculty; hence, the power of reasoning from premises; rationality.

noun. A formal discussion or treatment of a subjeet; a dissertation, treatise, homily, sermon, or the like: as, the discourse of Plutarch on garrulity, of Cicero on old age; an eloquent discourse.

noun. Debate; contention; strife.

noun. Intercourse; dealing; transaction.

noun. That sort of mental operation, performed by one person or by several, in which a line of thought is followed out.

To hold discourse; communicate thoughts or ideas orally, especially in a formal manner; treat in a set manner; hold forth; expatiate; converse: as, to discourse on the properties of the circle; the preacher discoursed on the nature and effect of faith.

To treat of or discuss a subject in a formal manner in writing.

To narrate; give a relation; tell.

To reason; argue from premises to consequences.

To treat of; talk over; discuss.

To utter or give forth.

To talk or confer with.

noun. 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.

noun. Conversation; talk.

noun. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.

noun. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc..

noun. Dealing; transaction.

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

intransitive verb. 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.

intransitive verb. To relate something; to tell.

intransitive verb. To treat of something in writing and formally.

transitive verb. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.

transitive verb. To utter or give forth; to speak.

transitive verb. To talk to; to confer with.

noun. Verbal exchange, conversation.

noun. Expression in words, either speech or writing.

noun. A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.

noun. Any rational expression, reason.

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

verb. To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.

verb. To write or speak formally and at length.

verb. (transitive) To debate.

verb. to consider or examine in speech or writing

noun. extended verbal expression in speech or writing

verb. talk at length and formally about a topic

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

noun. an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic

verb. carry on a conversation

"The title discourse furnishes a central theme to which those following stand in relation."

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