discourse

1. 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. Source: opted

2. n. Conversation; talk. Source: opted

3. n. The art and manner of speaking and conversing. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. n. Dealing; transaction. Source: opted

6. v. i. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. Source: opted

7. 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. Source: opted

8. v. i. To relate something; to tell. Source: opted

9. v. i. To treat of something in writing and formally. Source: opted

10. v. t. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. Source: opted

11. v. t. To utter or give forth; to speak. Source: opted

12. v. t. To talk to; to confer with. Source: opted

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