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Webster 1913 Edition


Discept

Dis-cept′

,
Verb.
I.
[L.
disceptare
.]
To debate; to discuss.
[R.]
One dissertates, he is candid;
Two must
discept
, – has distinguished.
R. Browning.

Definition 2024


discept

discept

English

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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert Browning to this entry?)