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.