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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
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)
- 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?)
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