Definition of discourse

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Discourse (n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.

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Synopses :: Synonymy (n.) A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.
Homily :: Homily (n.) A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
Dermatologist :: Dermatologist (n.) One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.
Entreat :: Entreat (v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty..
Preach :: Preach (v. i.) To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon..
Prelect :: Prelect (v. i.) To discourse publicly; to lecture.
Subrector :: Subreader (n.) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon..
Read :: Read (v. t.) To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book..
Locution :: Locution (n.) Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
Concinnity :: Concinnity (n.) Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse.
Vermeology :: Vermeology (n.) A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.
Thread :: Thread (n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse..
Narration :: Narration (n.) That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject..
Coherent :: Coherent (a.) Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse..
Tiresome :: Tiresome (a.) Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse..
Prolix :: Prolix (a.) Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon..
Discourse :: Discourse (n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Tract :: Tract (n.) A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion..
Magniloquence :: Magniloquence (n.) The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
Introduction :: Introduction (n.) That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium..
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