dissertated

He had a good many papers in his desk at the Custom-House, which he produced and dissertated upon, and afterwards went with me to his sister's, and showed me an old book, with a record of the children of the first emigrant, (who came over two hundred years ago,) in his own handwriting.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

Bert Taylor dissertated sometimes on one phase of the subject, sometimes on another.

The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909

Saurin in _Spartacus_ (1760) declaimed and dissertated in the manner of Voltaire.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

He had a good many old papers in his desk at the Custom-House, which he produced and dissertated upon, and afterwards went with me to his sister's, and showed me an old book, with a record of the children of the first emigrant (who came over two hundred years ago), in his own handwriting.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Of the nature of Dunciad in general, whence derived, and on what authority founded, as well as of the art and conduct of this our poem in particular, the learned and laborious Scriblerus hath, according to his manner, and with tolerable share of judgment, dissertated.

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716

Ford's and Crashaw's rival Nightingales -- why they have been dissertated on by Wordsworth and Coleridge, then by Lamb and Hazlitt, then worked to death by Hunt, who printed them entire and quoted them to pieces again, in every periodical he was ever engaged upon; and yet after all, here 'Philip' -- 'must read' (out of a roll of dropping papers with yellow ink tracings, so old!) something at which 'John' claps his hands and says 'Really -- that these ancients should own so much wit & c.'!

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850