All 6 Uses
discourse
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears—why she, even she
(O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer!)†p. 31.1 - That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.†
p. 131.1 *
- Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame and start not so wildly from my affair.†
p. 157.1
- Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.†
p. 159.5
- Alas, how is 't with you,
That you do bend your eye on vacancy
And with th' incorporal air do hold discourse?†p. 177.9 - 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.†p. 203.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(discourse) a serious speech, writing, or conversation on a particular topic
or much more rarely: to speak or write formally on a particular topic; or to have a conversation - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)