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Prelection :: Prelection (n.) A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

Treat :: Treat (v. i.) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to make discussion; -- usually with of; as, Cicero treats of old age and of duties..

Parlance :: Parlance (n.) Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance..

Prose :: Prose (n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse..

Expatiate :: Expatiate (v. i.) To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.

Composition :: Composition (n.) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music..

Deliberative :: Deliberative (n.) A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined..

Hang :: Hang (n.) Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse..

Prelector :: Prelector (n.) A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer.

Speech :: Speech (n.) formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.

Discourse :: Discourse (n.) Conversation; talk.

Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..

Recapitulation :: Recapitulation (n.) The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay..

Subrector :: Subreader (n.) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon..

Discourse :: Discourse (v. i.) To relate something; to tell.

Compact :: Compact (p. p. & a) Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse..

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..

Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture..

Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

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

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