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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of descant.

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Examples

  • But I was not disturbed, for I knew what I knew, and when I returned to my own igloo, I descanted to Moosu, and said: 'Happily the property right obtains amongst this people, who otherwise have been blessed with but few of the institutions of men.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • But I was not disturbed, for I knew what I knew, and when I returned to my own igloo, I descanted to Moosu and said: 'Happily the property right obtains amongst this people, who otherwise have been blessed with but few of the institutions of men.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • Well, last night our talk turned on lugubrious subjects, and Mr. Pike, wicked old man that he is, descanted on the wickedness of the world and on the wickedness of the man who had murdered Captain

    CHAPTER XXIV 2010

  • The sweetness of robins and chiffchaffs descanted subtly from hazel or elder beneath the harsh, relentless chorus of the rooks in the ash-tops.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The sweetness of robins and chiffchaffs descanted subtly from hazel or elder beneath the harsh, relentless chorus of the rooks in the ash-tops.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, &c., have descanted upon Catnach's rendezvous, but we must content with quoting one extract from Chas.

    James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1 Steve 2009

  • After having a a little descanted on this Adventure, we resolved to go to the Rose, to wash down our Disappointments, and try to meet some of our Acquaintance as they came out of the Play, and hear what Transactions, what Intrigues, and other little trifling News the House afforded that Evening.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • After having a a little descanted on this Adventure, we resolved to go to the Rose, to wash down our Disappointments, and try to meet some of our Acquaintance as they came out of the Play, and hear what Transactions, what Intrigues, and other little trifling News the House afforded that Evening.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • This personal reasoning pinched the Landamman somewhat closely, for he had but a short while before descanted on the generosity of the elder

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • Miss Margland, who never felt so virtuous, and never so elated, as when witnessing the imperfections or improprieties of others, descanted largely against ingratitude; treating an unmeaning sally of passion as a serious mark of turpitude: but Eugenia, ashamed for Dr. Orkborne, to whom, as her preceptor, she felt a constant disposition to be partial, determined to endeavour to induce him to make some apology.

    Camilla 2008

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