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Discursus
Discursus \Dis*cur"sus\, n. [L.] (Logic) Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.
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discursus
n. (context logic English) argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning
Usage examples of "discursus".
Lizzie fought her every step of the way, rambling off into one idiotic discursus after another.
Advised by Monsieur Gaffarel (in whispers, so the other habitues of the Dupuys, who gave scant credence to these things, could not overhear), he read the ats Magnesia of Kircher, the Tractatus de magnetica vulnerum curatione of Goclenius, the work of Fracastoro, the Discursus de unguento armario of Fludd, and the Hopolochrisma spongus of Foster.