Conversed vs Discoursed - What's the difference?
conversed | discoursed |
(converse)
(formal) To talk; to engage in conversation.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with .
* Thomson
* Sir Walter Scott
* Wordsworth
(obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
* John Locke
Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
* 1728 , (Edward Young), Love of Fame, the Universal Passion , Satire V, On Women, lines 44-46:
* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umerleigh’, The Toys of Peace'', Penguin 2000 (''Complete Short Stories ), p. 405:
Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
The opposite or reverse.
(logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true."''
equivalently: ''given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs" .
(discourse)
(uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
(uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
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(countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
(countable) Any rational expression, reason.
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* Shakespeare
(social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after ).
* 2007 , Christine L. Marran, Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture (page 137)
* 2008 , Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis Gordon, A Companion to African-American Studies (page 308)
(obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
To write or speak formally and at length.
(obsolete) To debate.
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
As verbs the difference between conversed and discoursed
is that conversed is past tense of converse while discoursed is past tense of discourse.conversed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*converse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(convers)- Companions / That do converse and waste the time together.
- We had conversed so often on that subject.
- To seek the distant hills, and there converse / With nature.
- Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
- But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
- according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety
Derived terms
* conversationNoun
(en noun)- Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day [...].
- In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse .
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(-)- a converse proposition
Noun
(en noun)equivalently: ''given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs" .
- All trees are plants, but the converse , that all plants are trees, is not true.
Derived terms
* converselyAnagrams
* * English heteronyms ----discoursed
English
Verb
(head)discourse
English
(wikipedia discourse)Noun
- Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room. At first I could not make much sense of what I heard; for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me, confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals.
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- The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
- difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason
- Sure he that made us with such large discourse , / Looking before and after, gave us not / That capability and godlike reason / To rust in us unused.
- Furthermore, it should be recalled from the previous chapter that criminological discourse of the 1930s deemed every woman a potential criminal, implicitly including the domestic woman.
- But equally important to the emergence of uniquely African-American queer discourses is the refusal of African-American movements for liberation to address adequately issues of sexual orientation and gender identity.
- Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse / Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how / We got the victory.
Synonyms
* (expression in words) communication, expression * (verbal exchange) debate, conversation, discussion, talk * (formal lengthy exposition of some subject) dissertation, lecture, sermon, study, treatise * (rational expression) ratiocinationDerived terms
* direct discourse * indirect discourseVerb
(discours)- (Dryden)