discourager (diskurajer)

1. One who or that which discourages, disheartens, or de pre the course one who discourages, discountenances, or deters: as, a discourager of or from marriage. Those discouragers and abaters of elevated love. Dryden, The A ignation, iii. 1. discouraging (dis-kur'ā-jing), p. a: [Ppr. of discourage, v.] Tending to dishearten or to depre the courage; disheartening: as, dis cour aging prospects. discouragingly (dis-kur'ā-jing-li), adv. In a discouraging manner. 1654 Thu. How likes she my discourse? Pro. Ill, when you talk of war. Thu. But well, when I discourse of love and peace? Shak., T. G. of V., v. 2. Nay, good my lord, sit still; I'll promise peace, And fold mine arms up; let but mine eye discourse . Beau, and Fl ., Woman-Hater, iii. 1. He had always in his house doctors and masters, with whom he discoursed concerning the knowledge and the books he studied. Ticknor , Span. Lit., I. 334. discover 2. An act of disrespect or incivility. Proclamation was made, none vpon paine of death to presume to doe vs any wrong or discourtesie. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, I. 167. Lance lot knew that she was looking at him, And yet he glanced not up, nor waved his hand, Nor bad farewell, but sadly rode away. This was the one discourtesy that he used. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. manner in writing. The general maxims we are discoursing of are not known to children, idiots, and a great part of mankind. Locke. 31. To narrate; give a relation; tell. Or by what means got'st thou to be released? Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 4. 4. To reason; argue from premises to conse quences. Nor can the soule discourse or judge of aught But what the sense collects and home doth bring; And yet the power of her discoursing thought, From these collections, is a divers thing. discourse (dis-kōrs'), n . [ discours = Dan. Sw. diskurs , discours , F. discours = Sp. Pg. discurso = It. disc or so , discourse, discursus , a running to and fro, a running about, a pace, gait, LL. a discourse, conversation, ML. also reasoning, the reason- ing faculty, discurrere , pp. discursus , run to and fro, run through or over, hasten, LL. go over a subject, speak at length of, discourse of (> It. discorrere = Sp. discurrir = Pg. discorrer = F. discourir , discourse), dis- , away, in dif- ferent directions, + currere , run: see current1 , and cf. course1, concourse. Hence discursive, etc.] 1. A running over a subject in speech; hence, a communication of thoughts by words; expre ion of ideas; mutual intercourse; talk; 3t. To talk or confer with. Sir J. Davies , Nosce Teipsum. II. trans. 11. To treat of; talk over; discu . Go with us into the abbey here, And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes. conversation. Rich she shall be,... of good discourse , an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what colour it please God. Shak., Much Ado, ii. 3. His wisdom was greate, and judgment most acute; of solid discourse , affable, humble, and in nothing affected. Evelyn, Diary (1623), p. 4. The vanquished party with the victors joined, Nor wanted sweet discourse , the banquet of the mind. Dryden. You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men, but let all three of you come together, and you shall not have one new and hearty word. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 189. 2. A running over in the mind of premises and deducing of conclusions; the exercise of, or an act of exercising, the logical or reasoning faculty; hence, the power of reasoning from premises; rationality. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse , Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 4. Reason is her [the soul's] being, Discursive or intuitive: discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours. Milton , P. L., v. 488. IMG:content-2774.png:[blocks in formation] Discourse indicates the operation of comparison, the running backwards and forwards between the characters and notes of objects; this term may, therefore, be properly applied to the elaborative faculty in general. The terms discourse and discursus are, however, often, nay generally, used for the reasoning proce , strictly considered. Sir W. Hamilton . 3. A formal discu ion or treatment of a subject; a di ertation, treatise, homily, sermon, or the like: as, the discourse of Plutarch on garrulity, of Cicero on old age; an eloquent discourse.-4. Debate; contention; strife. The villaine. Himselfe addrest unto this new debate, And with his club him all about so blist, That he which way to turne him scarcely wist. At last the caytive, after long discourse , When all his strokes he saw avoyded quite, Resolved in one t' a emble all his force. Spenser, F. Q., VI. viii. 14. [In this pa age the editors usually but erroneously give discourse a literal sense, 'a running about, hence a shifting of ground.'] 5t. Intercourse; dealing; transaction. Beau. and Fl. discourse (dis-kōrs'), v.; pret. and pp. discoursed, ppr. discoursing. [ in a set manner; hold forth; expatiate; convse: as, to discourse on the properties of the cile; the preacher discoursed on the nature and eict of faith. Shak., C. of E., v. 1. Medicines and cures were first found out, and then after the reasons and causes were discoursed . Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 210. Some of them discoursing their travels, and of their tedious captivity in the Turk's galleys. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 1. 2. To utter or give forth. Give it [the pipe] breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most excellent music. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to dis course the minister about it. Evelyn. I have discoursed several Men that were in that Expedition, and if I mistake not, Captain Sharp was one of them. Dampier , Voyages, I. 129. I waked him, and would discourse him. Walpole , Letters, II. 156. discoursele t (dis-kōrs'les), a . [ -le .] Without discourse or reason. To attempt things whence rather harm may after result unto us then good is the part of rash and discourse le brains. Shelton, tr. of Don Quixote, II. vi. discourser (dis-kōr'sėr), n. 1. One who discourses; a speaker; a haranguer. This man is perfect; A civiler discourser I ne'er talk'd with. Fletcher, The Pilgrim, iii. 7. 21. A writer of a treatise or di ertation. The Historian makes himself a Discourser for profit; and an Orator, yea, a Poet sometimes, for ornament. Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 306). discoursingt (dis-kōr's ing), a. [ Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 78. We, through madne , Frame strange conceits in our discoursing brains. Ford , Lady's Trial, iii. 3.