discept
English
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discept (third-person singular simple present discepts, present participle discepting, simple past and past participle discepted)
- To debate; to discuss.
- 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey:
- MR.FLOSKY: Permit me to discept. They are the mediums of common forms combined and arranged into a common standard. The ideal beauty of the Helen of Zeuxis was the combined medium of the real beauty of the virgins of Crotona.
- Template:RQ:Browning The Ring and the Book
- I love it with my heart : unsatisfied , I try it with my reason , nor discept
From any point I probe and pronounce sound.
- I love it with my heart : unsatisfied , I try it with my reason , nor discept
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discept”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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