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▪ I. diˈscoursing, vbl. n.
[f. discourse v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb discourse, q.v.; talking, conversation; discussion.
1559Bp. Scot in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. x. 33 Let the prestes..meet together..for the discoursinge therof. 1667Bp. S. Parker Cens. Platon. Phil. 37 Plato's discoursings about practicall matters are exceeding handsome and pertinent. 1683W. Hacke Collect. Voy. (1699) i. 7 We concluded the discoursing of Women at Sea was very unlucky, and occasioned the Storm. 1894Athenæum 17 Mar. 339/1 To listen to the discoursing of an accomplished man of letters..is always a pleasure.
▪ II. diˈscoursing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That discourses; see the verb.
†1. Passing from premisses to consequences, reasoning; reasonable, rational. Obs.
1592Davies Immort. Soul ii. xi. (1714) 29 Brutes do want that quick discoursing Pow'r, Which doth in us the erring Sense correct. 1638K. Digby Let. conc. Relig. ii. (1651) 14 The Fathers works..will fairly inform a rational and discoursing man of the true state of them. 1642R. Carpenter Experience ii. v. 156 Motives..sufficient to induce a discoursing man to forsake the Jesuits.
†b. Passing rapidly from one thought to another; busily thinking. Obs.
a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 78 A factious hart, a discoursing head, a mynde to medle in all mens matters. 1625Bacon Ess., Truth (Arb.) 499 And though the Sects of Philosophers of that Kinde be gone, yet there remaine certaine discoursing Wits. 1638Ford Lady's Trial iii. iii, We..Frame strange conceits in our discoursing brains.
2. Talking, holding discourse; delivering a discourse.
a1568R. Ascham Scholem. (Arb.) 76 A busie head, a discoursing tong, and a factious harte. 1644Bulwer (title), Chirologia: or the Naturall Language of the Hand. Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures thereof. 1891Daily News 2 Oct. 5/6 Mrs. Theodore Fry..and Miss Orme, were the discoursing ladies. |