Definition of discourse
- n. - 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.
- n. - Conversation; talk.
- n. - The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Dealing; transaction.
- v. i. - To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and
inferring; to reason.
- v. i. - 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.
- v. i. - To relate something; to tell.
- v. i. - To treat of something in writing and formally.
- v. t. - To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
- v. t. - To utter or give forth; to speak.
- v. t. - To talk to; to confer with.