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DISCRIMINATIVELY adv.
With discrimination or distinction. J. Foster.
DISCRIMINATOR n.
One who discriminates.
DISCRIMINATORY a.
Discriminative.
DISCRIMINOUS a.
Hazardous; dangerous. [Obs.] Harvey.
DISCRIVE v.
To describe. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DISCROWN v.
To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.
DISCRUCIATE v.
To torture; to excruciate. [Obs.] Discruciate a man in deep distress. Herrick.
DISCUBITORY a.
Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
DISCULPATE v.
r the imputation of a fault; to exculpate. I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself. Walpole.
DISCULPATION n.
Exculpation. Burke.
DISCULPATORY a.
Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.
DISCUMBENCY n.
The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.
DISCUMBER v.
To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber. [Archaic] Pope.
DISCURE v.
To discover; to reveal; to discoure. [Obs.] I will, if please you it discure, assay To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may. Spenser.
DISCURRENT a.
Not current or free to circulate; not in use. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.
DISCURSION n.
The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.
DISCURSIST n.
A discourser. [Obs.] L. Addison.
DISCURSIVE a. 2 definitions
ing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.
DISCURSORY a.
Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. [R.] Bp. Hall.
DISCURSUS n.
Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.
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