The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Discoursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Discoursing.]
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] ``Have sense or can discourse.''
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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.
--Shak. To relate something; to tell.
--Shak.To treat of something in writing and formally.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: discourse)
Usage examples of "discoursed".
Somewhat imitating the Peristylia or Cloyster buildings, and the Exedrœ of the Ancients, wherein men discoursed, walked and exercised.
He talked of the classics, but he had been to Greece, and he discoursed of archaeology.
Cronshaw often went to the gatherings on Tuesday evenings when the poet received men of letters and painters, and discoursed with subtle oratory on any subject that was suggested to him.
When he grew tired of this he rolled himself a cigarette and discoursed to Philip of art and literature.
Subjects so often discoursed confine the Imagination, and fix our Conceptions unto the Notions of Forewriters.
The fact that he had discoursed there, though not a word of the discourse was remembered, allied him to the spirit of a day rather increasing in sacredness as it receded and left her less the possessor of it, more the worshipper.
They discoursed to her of the degeneracy of the manners, nay, the morals of young Englishwomen, once patterns!
He discoursed of the 'Army' and her position in the Army, giving instances of her bravery, the devotion shown by her to the cause of morality, in all its forms.
While Perceval and his uncle discoursed together, Perceval beheld two youths enter the hall, bearing a golden cup and a spear of mighty size, with blood dropping from its point to the ground.
And Peredur went and sat beside the Empress, and discoursed with her courteously.
In the same manner the brave Judas Maccabeus, of whom all the world discoursed, performed many wonderful deeds worthy forever to be remembered, but when he was abandoned by his soldiers in the midst of a battle, with thousands of enemies to oppose him, he was slain, together with his brothers.
She arranged herself, a bit stiffly, in an armchair in the Grand Salon, and discoursed sotto voce with Bonaventure Rossignol.
For in the end, this was the only way she had found to maintain Bon-bon’s attentiveness as she had discoursed of ecus au soleil and the Dépôt and so forth.
Solomon had gold, and moreover he had an understanding heart, so that the secrets hidden within matter—such as I have discoursed of in window-glass and acids—could scarcely have been hidden from his gaze for long.