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61discourse upon — dis ˈcourse on/upon [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they discourse on/upon he/she/it discourses on/upon present participle discoursing on/upon past tense discoursed …
62discourse on — dis ˈcourse on/upon [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they discourse on/upon he/she/it discourses on/upon present participle discoursing on/upon past tense discoursed …
63discourse analysis — noun Date: 1952 the study of linguistic relations and structures in discourse …
64discourse — discourser, n. n. /dis kawrs, kohrs, dis kawrs , kohrs /; v. /dis kawrs , kohrs /, n., v., discoursed, discoursing. n. 1. communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse. 2. a formal discussion of a… …
65discourse — 1. noun a) Verbal exchange, conversation. Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room. At first I could not make much sense of what I heard; for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and …
66Discourse on Defilement — Jesus disputes with the Pharisees over cleanliness, from the Bowyer Bible, 19th century. The Discourse on Defilement is an episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament …
67discourse — noun Discourse is used before these nouns: ↑analysis …
68discourse analysis — n. (Linguistics) study of relations and structures in discourse (speech), field of linguistics that studies the regulations that characterize the units of connected speech and analyzes language use rather than grammatical units …
69discourse marker — noun Grammar a word or phrase whose function is to organize discourse into segments, for example I mean …
70discourse — I. n. 1. (Rare.) Reason, reasoning faculty, reasoning. 2. Dissertation, treatise, disquisition, homily, sermon. 3. Conversation, talk, converse, oral communication, verbal intercourse. II. v. n. 1. Speak, expatiate, hold forth, deliver a… …
