• DISCOURSE

1.

• s. Rational power of drawing inferences, etc., ratio, intelligentia. (The words are found in this connection and order.) ratio et (or atque) intelligentia.
• Conversation, Vid:
• A discourse = a regular speech uttered or written, oratio (general term); concio (delivered to an assembly of the people, soldiers, etc.): sermo doctus (learned discourse): short discourse, oratiuncula: to deliver a discourse, orationem habere, agere, or dicere (general term); concionari, concionem habere (to the people, soldiers, etc.): to compose a discourse, orationem facere or conficere: to prepare a discourse, orationem meditari or commentari: to read a discourse, deliver a written discourse, orationem de scripto dicere [Vid: SPEECH].
• Treatise, dissertation, etc., sermo (delivered orally; on any subject, de aliqua re habitus): disputatio: liber: Vid: TREATISE.

2. v. confabulari cum aliquo; sermones serere or caedere (κόπτειν λόγους or ῥήματα, of several persons conversing together, Comic): disputare, disserere (to treat of subjects in philosophy, etc.): to discourse secretly on any dangerous subject, occultis sermonibus serere aliquid (Liv. 7, 39, init.).