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r the imputation of a fault; to exculpate. I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself. Walpole.

Exculpation. Burke.

Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.

The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.

To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber. [Archaic] Pope.

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.

Not current or free to circulate; not in use. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.

A discourser. [Obs.] L. Addison.

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.

Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.

The exercise with the discus.

To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors. Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. Wood.

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

Pertaining to discussion.

Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.

Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n.

e regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. How my soul is moved with just disdain! Pope.