DISCOURSE

(Lat. discurrere, to discu .) In Rhetoric, signifies in its widest acceptation a series of sentences and arguments arranged according to the rules of art, with tlie view of producing some impre ion on the mind or feelings of those to whom it is addre ed. In Logic, this term is applied to the third operation of the mind, commonly called reasoning. See Logic. 250 DISEASE. [s. 363]