Definition of Discourse

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Discourse

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.

Conversation; talk.

The art and manner of speaking and conversing.

Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.

Dealing; transaction.

To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.

To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.

To relate something; to tell.

To treat of something in writing and formally.

To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.

To utter or give forth; to speak.

To talk to; to confer with.

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Discourse Quotations

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
Jacques Derrida

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
George Whitefield

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
Bryant H. McGill

Discourse Translations

discourse in German is reden, Rede halten
discourse in Norwegian is foredrag

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