discourser

[Eng. discours(e); -er.] 1. One who treats or writes on any subject; a dis sertator. "Our discourser here has quoted nine verses out of it." - Bentley. On Freethinking, p. 65. 2. One who speaks or discourses on any subject; a speaker, a narrator. "The tract of everything Would by a good discourser lose some life." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., i. 1. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, discoursing dis-cours-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [DISCOURSE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: *1. Reasoning, meditation. "You being by nature given to melancholic discoursing , do easilier yield to such imaginations."- North : Plutarch's Lives, p. 830. 2. A treating on any subject; di ertation. dis-cours-Ive, a . [Eng. discours(e); -ive.] 1. Of or pertaining to reason; reasoning, discursive. "In thy discoursive thought." Browne: Shepherd's Pipe, Ecl. vii. 2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. "The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes." -Dryden: Dramatic Poesy 3. Affable, conversable, communicative, talkative. "He found him a complaisant man, very free and dis . coursive."- Life of A. à Wood. *4. Moving or pa ing from one point or object to another; discursive. "His sight is not discoursive by degrees But seeing th' whole each single part doth see." Davies: Immortality of the Soul , § 8. *dis-cours-ỹ, a . [Eng. discours (e); -y.] Affable, conversable, communicative. (Scotch.) *dis-court', v . t . [Pref. dis , and English court (q. v.).] To dismi from court or from court favor. "Pretending to dis court all such as refused."-Speed: The Romans, bk. vi., ch. xlvi., § 6.