meaning of discourses
1. 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.
2. Conversation; talk.
3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
4. 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.
5. Dealing; transaction.
6. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
7. To express ones self in oral discourse; to expose ones views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
8. To relate something; to tell.
9. To treat of something in writing and formally.
10. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
11. To utter or give forth; to speak.
12. To talk to; to confer with.
Related Words
discourse | discoursed | discourser | discoursing | discoursive |
