Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To dispute; take exception; differ: as, allow me to discept.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb rare To debate; to discuss.

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  • verb To debate; to discuss.

Etymologies

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Latin disceptare.

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Examples

  • The first difficulty encountered in trying to discept between Donatello and his school, is that authenticated examples from which to make our inductions are very rare.

    Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905

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