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figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.

arts. Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.

commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

r a separate part; to diverge. -- To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. To branch out into a long disputation. Spectator.

The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup. I am sure by your unprejudiced discourses that you love broth better than soup. Addison.

Low; vulgar. [R.] Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.

ble instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations. More capable to discourse of battles than to give them. Motley.

- Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. -- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrared by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the liv…

r in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent. They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere. Burke.

subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness. Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him. Locke.

dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

d coincidence of ao many evidences . . . carries a great weight. Sir M. Hale. Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness. South.

A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. Bailey.

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood.

A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk. Their lavish comment when her name was named. Tennyson.

To converse together; to discourse; to confer. [Obs.] Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. Grafton.

Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.

The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. "The constant habit of elaborate composition." Macaulay.