disquisition

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It will be well, if already you have not too much of metaphysical disquisition in your work, though as the larger part of the disquisition is historical, it will doubtless be both interesting and instructive to many to whose unprepared minds your speculations on the esemplastic power would be utterly unintelligible.

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  1. noun A formal discourse on a subject, often in writing.

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  • It will be well, if already you have not too much of metaphysical disquisition in your work, though as the larger part of the disquisition is historical, it will doubt- less be both interesting and instructive to many to whose unprepared minds your speculations on the esemplastic power would be utterly unintelli- gible. —  Biographia Literaria
  • By the end of his disquisition, Santelli had announced a "Chicago Tea Party" of disgruntled arch-capitalists to be held in July.
  • Puccini hadn't genius enough to explore the fringes of the rule; and knowing that, he practiced nothing more than dead-ahead disquisition: he gave his audience the human relations straightly. —  Dartblog
  • Todd Boulonger just pled guilty, and a lecture on "corruption" from John Hinderaker is about as welcome as a disquisition on birth control from Nadya Suleman. —  Firedoglake
  • Erick Schonfeld frames Jobs's account as a disquisition on why talent should be paid in stock. —  Redfin Corporate Blog: Notes on Redfin, technology, real estate and life at a startup.
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dissertation ·  argumentation ·  enquiry ·  harangue ·  oration ·  preface ·  essay ·  exposition ·  discourse ·  peroration ·  musings ·  acumen
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  1. Latin disquīsītiō, disquīsītiōn-, investigation, from disquīsītus, past participle of disquīrere, to investigate : dis-, dis- + quaerere, to search for.

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  1. = French disquisition = Spanish disquisicion = Portuguese disquisição = Italian disquisizione, from Latin disquisitio(n-), an inquiry, investigation, from disquirere, past participle disquisitus, inquire, investigate, from dis-, apart, + quærere, seek: see query, question, acquire, inquire, etc., and cf. acquisition, inquisition, etc.
 

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