Discourse

1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
2. Conversation; talk.
3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
4. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
5. To relate something; to tell.
6. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
7. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
8. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
9. To utter or give forth; to speak.
10. Dealing; transaction.
11. To treat of something in writing and formally.
12. To talk to; to confer with.