Dissert
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To discourse or dispute; to discuss.
"This, we are persuaded, is the true key to the greater part of the peculiarities of the author before us; and though we have disserted upon it a little longer than was necessary, we really think it may enable our readers to comprehend him […]"
Example
More examples"This, we are persuaded, is the true key to the greater part of the peculiarities of the author before us; and though we have disserted upon it a little longer than was necessary, we really think it may enable our readers to comprehend him […]"
Etymology
From Latin dissertus, past participle of disserere, from dis- + serere (“to join, connect”). Compare French disserter. See series; doublet of dissertate.
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