Discourse vs. Discoursed
Discoursenoun
Verbal exchange, conversation.
Discoursedverb
simple past tense and past participle of discourse
Discoursenoun
(uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
Discoursenoun
(countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
‘The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.’;
Discoursenoun
(countable) Any rational expression, reason.
Discoursenoun
An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
Discoursenoun
(obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
Discourseverb
(intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
Discourseverb
(intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
Discourseverb
To debate.
Discourseverb
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Discourseverb
To produce or emit (musical sounds).
Discoursenoun
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.
‘Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason.’; ‘Sure he that made us with such large discourse,Looking before and after, gave us notThat capability and godlike reasonTo fust in us unused.’;
Discoursenoun
Conversation; talk.
‘In their discourses after supper.’; ‘Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse.’;
Discoursenoun
The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
‘Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse.’;
Discoursenoun
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.
Discoursenoun
Dealing; transaction.
‘Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourseBetwixt Tigranes and our king, and howWe got the victory.’;
Discourseverb
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Discourseverb
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.
‘Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.’;
Discourseverb
To relate something; to tell.
Discourseverb
To treat of something in writing and formally.
Discourseverb
To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
‘The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book.’;
Discourseverb
To utter or give forth; to speak.
‘It will discourse most eloquent music.’;
Discourseverb
To talk to; to confer with.
‘I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it.’;
Discoursenoun
extended verbal expression in speech or writing
Discoursenoun
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
Discoursenoun
an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic;
‘the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic’; ‘his treatment of the race question is badly biased’;
Discourseverb
to consider or examine in speech or writing;
‘The article covered all the different aspects of this question’; ‘The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'’;
Discourseverb
carry on a conversation
Discourseverb
talk or hold forth formally about a topic;
‘The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England’;
Discourse
Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication. Discourse is a major topic in social theory, with work spanning fields such as sociology, anthropology, continental philosophy, and discourse analysis.
