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  • noun Plural form of dissertation.

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Examples

  • Two dissertations from the mid-1990s compared the critical and cultural reception of these poets: Dan Albergotti's Hemans, Byron, and the Reviewers,

    'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001

  • Oresiesis the monk, a colleague of Pachomius and Theodore and a man perfectly learned in the Scriptures, composed a Divinely savoured book containing instruction for all monastic discipline, in which nearly the whole Old and New Testaments are explained in short dissertations in as far as they affect monks; and shortly before his death he gave this book to his bretheren as his testament.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • A writer of later times has, by the vivacity of his essays, reconciled mankind to the same licentiousness in short dissertations; and he therefore who wants skill to form a plan, or diligence to pursue it, needs only entitle his performance an essay, to acquire the right of heaping together the collections of half his life without order, coherence, or propriety.

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

  • However, the question I have for you today dear readers, is about the use of diagrams in dissertations.

    Drawing a Dissertation Mary Kate Hurley 2009

  • However, the question I have for you today dear readers, is about the use of diagrams in dissertations.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2009

  • Blogos has a post about last words in dissertations.

    First and Last Words Richard Nokes 2006

  • The dissertations were a study of change in themselves.

    Generation Me Ph.D. Jean M. Twenge 2006

  • The dissertations were a study of change in themselves.

    Generation Me Ph.D. Jean M. Twenge 2006

  • The dissertations are the only part in which an exact translation has been attempted; and even in those, abstracts are sometimes given, instead of literal quotations, particularly in the first; and sometimes other parts have been contracted.

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746

  • The dissertations are the only part in which an exact translation has been attempted, and even in those abstracts are sometimes given instead of literal quotations, particularly in the first; and sometimes other parts have been contracted.

    A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

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