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  • verb Present participle of dissert.

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Examples

  • Oh an do well on your dissertation; what are you disserting on?

    Nothing to see here. Fathorse 2009

  • Of the 3 Americans, 1 has a PhD, 1 is still disserting, and one left within a few months.

    Economists on Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Listen, when you hear Murrow saying "We mustn't confuse dissent with disloyalty and we should lead not only in the area of bombs but in the area of ideas" and when he says "We can't defend freedom abroad by disserting it at home," I think those have a lot to do with things that are going on today.

    CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2006 2006

  • When he heard about my love, he fell into an indescribable ecstasy, congratulated me, embraced me, and at once fell to disserting and enlarging upon all the dignity of my new position.

    Rudin 2003

  • When he heard about my love, he fell into an indescribable ecstasy, congratulated me, embraced me, and at once fell to disserting and enlarging upon all the dignity of my new position.

    Rudin Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • Vainly, however, he sought to elicit some observations that might lead to disserting discourse; all his attempts received only quiet, acquiescent replies, "signifying nothing."

    Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney 1842

  • It was with pleasure that Vivian at length observed Mr. Sievers enter the room, and extricating himself from the enlightened and enthusiastic crowd who were disserting round the tribunal of Madame, he hastened to his amusing friend.

    Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Socrates, considered as the wisest and the most moral of men, Cicero treated as an usurer, and the pedant Athenæus as illiterate; the latter points out as a Socratic folly our philosopher disserting on the nature of justice before his judges, who were so many thieves.

    Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

  • Our writers repeatedly found it necessary to refute the disserting view asserted not only by the Latins, but also by '' their unsalaried defenders '' [189] (i.e. Latinizers within the Church), regarding the canonicity of their '' baptism. ''

    orrologion 2009

  • But I've seen Trainspotting and "The Wire," and listened to some pretty, pretty, pretty dangerous music, so I know everything there is to know - and can often be heard at parties disserting wisely on the subject of 'dope fiends, yo' or 'that cruel mistress,

    Pajiba 2009

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