Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To discourse; expatiate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To discourse or dispute; to discuss.
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- verb To
discourse ordispute ; todiscuss .
Etymologies
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Who will debate, dissect, and dissert the virtue of Sci-fi to no ends ...
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Enfin bref c pas la premiere fois qu'on me dit que mes redac sont bien puisque avant ma premiere PFE la prof a insister pour lire ma dissert 'devant tout le monde ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Upon such occasions it is not amiss to know how to parley cuisine, and to be able to dissert upon the growth and flavor of wines.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Lord descended, to helle and dispoyled it; for at such houre schal he dispoyle the world, and lede his chosene to blisse; and the othere schalle be condempne to perpetuelle peynes: and thanne schalle every man have aftir his dissert, outher gode or evylle; but zif the mercy of God passe his rightewisnesse.
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Estre Day, suche tyme as oure Lord aroos: and the dom schalle begynne, suche houre as oure Lord descended, to helle and dispoyled it; for at such houre schal he dispoyle the world, and lede his chosene to blisse; and the othere schalle be condempne to perpetuelle peynes: and thanne schalle every man have aftir his dissert, outher gode or evylle; but zif the mercy of God passe his rightewisnesse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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See Le Brun, Explic. des Cérèmonies de la Messe, t. 4, pp. 234-235, dissert.l. 4, art.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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; JOAN DE GROSSIS, Agatha Catanensis sive de natali patria S. Agathae, dissert. histor.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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(London, 1895); Driver, Isaiah: his life and times and the writings which bear his name (London, 1888); Lowth, Isaiah, translation, dissert. and notes (London, 1778); Skinner, Isaiah (Cambridge, 1896);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Nov. 1 (1887), 432-43; LAUNOY, De Victorino episc. et mart. dissert.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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She soon recognised his love of nature; and this allowed her to dissert on the subject, at once sublime and inexhaustible, with copiousness worthy of the theme.
Endymion Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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