Definitions

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  • transitive verb obsolete To discover.

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  • verb Obsolete form of discover.

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Examples

  • “If any place ought to be protective of free speech and open discoure, it's the University of Virginia.”

    University of Virginia reforms speech code Valerie Strauss 2010

  • And it will be, especially when Lebanese political discoure--in the absence of Syrian domination--will get more frank, i.e., more vulgarly sectarian and hateful as we now observe, especially as the Hummus and Batata Revolution descends into a typical Lebanese festival of sectarian hatred, double-talks, agitation, animosities, and political fraudulences.

    Thursday, June 30, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • Lol, not really, since I indeed use discoure theories to analyse Mediaeval texts, which is pretty much a new approach because most literature professors think those theories, because developed on modern texts, work only back to the 19th century at best.

    Adventures in story space Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • Plato doeth affirme in Timæo, vnder the name Atlantis, the West indies to be an Island, as in a special discoure thereof R. Eden writeth, agreeable vnto the sentence of Proclus, Marsilius Ficinus, and others.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Too bad I don’t have the time, because I would love to hear your learned discoure as to why psychiatry or even physchiatry, as you spell it is a FRADULENT profession that has not had ONE ‘disease’ validated.

    Anthony Colpo: a man obsessed | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

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