Word Meanings - DISSERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To discourse or dispute; to discuss. We have disserted upon it a little longer than was necessary. Jeffrey.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSERT)

• Descant
• Dissert
• discuss
• expatiate
• enlarge
• talk
• dwell
• amplify

Related words: (words related to DISSERT)

• DISSERTATIONAL
  Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
• DISSERTATE
  To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. J. Foster.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• DISSERTLY
  See DISERTLY
• DISCUSSIONAL
  Pertaining to discussion.
• DWELL
  AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dvæle to linger, 1. To delay; to linger. 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy
• AMPLIFY
  1. To become larger. Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify. Fairfax. 2. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. Watts.
• DISSERT
  To discourse or dispute; to discuss. We have disserted upon it a little longer than was necessary. Jeffrey.
• DISCUSSER
  One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. Wood.
• ENLARGED
  Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.
• DISCUSSIVE
  Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter. 2. Doubt-dispelling; decisive. A kind of peremptory and discussive voice. Hopkins.
• ENLARGE
  Etym: 1. To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke. 2. To increase the capacity of; to expand;
• DISSERTATION
  A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.
• DWELLING
  Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling
• DISCUSS
  To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety. Burrill. Syn. -- To Discuss, Examine, Debate. We speak of examining a subject when we ponder it with care, in order
• DISSERTATOR
  One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. Boyle.
• DESCANT
  discantus, fr. L. dis + cantus singing, melody, fr. canere to sing. Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song. The
• EXPATIATE
  exspatiari, to expatiate; ex out + spatiari to walk about spread out, 1. To range at large, or without restraint. Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies. Pope. 2. To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to
• DISSERTATIONIST
  A writer of dissertations.
• DWELLER
  An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• OUTDWELL
  To dwell or stay beyond. "He outdwells his hour." Shak.
• INDISCUSSED
  Not discussed. Donne.
• INDWELLER
  An inhabitant. Spenser.
• SPEEDWELL
  Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
• TRADESCANTIA
  A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
• WATER SPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell found in wet places in Europe and America.
• LAKE-DWELLER
  See LAKE