1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] "Have sense or can discourse." Dryden.
2. 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. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Shak.
3. To relate something; to tell. Shak.
4. To treat of something in writing and formally.
DISCOURSE
Dis*course", v. t.
1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.] 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 mosShak.
3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.] I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn.
DISCOURSER
Dis*cours"er, n.
1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward.