DISCOURSE

I. noun see: car Date: 14th century the capacity of orderly thought or procedure ; rationality , verbal interchange of ideas, 3. formal and orderly and usually extended expression of thought on a subject, connected speech or writing, a linguistic unit (as a conversation or a story) larger than a sentence, social familiarity, a mode of organizing knowledge, ideas, or experience that is rooted in language and its concrete contexts (as history or institutions) , II. verb (~d; discoursing) Date: 1559 intransitive verb to express oneself especially in oral ~, talk , converse , transitive verb to give forth ; utter , ~r noun