Dictionary entry

Discourse (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐course″, v. t. 1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.

The life of William Tyndale... is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe.

2. To utter or give forth; to speak.

It will discourse most eloquent music. Shak.

3. To talk to; to confer with.

I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn.