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Prolix :: Prolix (a.) Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.

Thine :: Thine (pron. & a.) A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers..

Discourse :: Discourse (n.) Dealing; transaction.

Preach :: Preach (v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.

Discourse :: 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..

Discourse :: Discourse (v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.

Sermon :: Sermon (v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.

Angelology :: Angelology (n.) A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels..

Head :: Head (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon..

Morality :: Morality (n.) A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII..

Entreat :: Entreat (v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty..

Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject..

Conversation :: Conversation (n.) Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.

Preachify :: Preachify (v. i.) To discourse in the manner of a preacher.

Speak :: Speak (v. i.) To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally..

Preach :: Preach (v. t.) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.

Speak :: Speak (v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.

Tidology :: Tidology (n.) A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.

Former :: Former (a.) Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument..

Sententious :: Sententious (a.) Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth..

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