Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ratiocination; argumentation; discourse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Logic) Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.
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- noun logic
argumentation ;ratiocination ;discursive reasoning
Etymologies
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Examples
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The irony is that historically such a discursus, though pertinent across the board, is particularly pertinent to the present state-enforced medical monopolies in “obstetrics” and “gynecology”.
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Praemittitur discursus praeliminaris de philosophia in genere.
Christian Wolff Hettche, Matt 2006
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'Quidquid agunt homines, votum timor ira voluptas gaudia discursus nostri farrago libelli est.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Gaudia, discursus, which agitate the great metropolis, and even opinions, ready prepared, to the breakfast tables of our remotest farms, ere the controversial warmth has had time to cool.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 Various
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It was an excellent discursus on the drama from the time of the morality plays to the time of the
The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927
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"Ornithologia per discursus praedicabiles exhibita" (Munich, 1678), in fol.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Yet the Scholastics also unanimously hold that man's specific mark is ratiocination or discursus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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De saluberrima potione cahue, seu café nuncupata discursus.
All About Coffee 1909
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_Polygamia triumphatrix, id est, discursus politicus de Polygamia, auctore
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Then he produced another work, entitled _Theophili Aletaei discursus politicus de
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