discept

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin disceptō.

Pronunciation

Verb

discept (third-person singular simple present discepts, present participle discepting, simple past and past participle discepted)

  1. To debate; to discuss.
    • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey:
      MR.FLOSKY: Permit me to discept. They are the mediums of common forms combined and arranged into a common standard. The ideal beauty of the Helen of Zeuxis was the combined medium of the real beauty of the virgins of Crotona.
    • 1868–1869, Robert Browning, “(please specify the page)”, in The Ring and the Book. , volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC:
      I love it with my heart : unsatisfied , I try it with my reason , nor discept / From any point I probe and pronounce sound.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discept”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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