dissert
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of dissert
1615–25; < Latin dissertāre to set forth at length (frequentative of disserere to arrange in order), equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + ser- put together + frequentative -t- + -āre infinitive suffix
Example Sentences
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On the old French stage, there were these two eminent characteristics of tragedy: Whatever the subject—if Œdipus, and the Plague raging—there must be a love-tale; and the most impassioned persons most continually dissert.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
But it was the Empire, not the Church, which was weak in Italy.—See also Natalis Alex, in sec. 8th dissert.
From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois
Against the supposed translation of the whole shrines of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica into France, see Muratori, Antichita, &c., dissert.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
There is a good review of the opinions of the ancients in general, and of Seneca in particular, on this subject in Justus Lipsius' Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam, lib. iii. dissert.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
I am not going to dissert on Hood's humor; I am not a fair judge.
From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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