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power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward.

Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton.

Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.

disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.

Want of courtesy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Disklike; discoid.

To dissolve covenant with.

To uncover. [Obs.] Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church. Abp. Grindal.

The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.

Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh.

Discovery. [Obs.]

An uncovered place or part. [Obs.] At discovert, uncovered. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Discovery. [Obs.]

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

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To take from a cradle. [R.] This airy apparition first discradled From Tournay into Portugal. Ford.

The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.