What does discours mean?

discours

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English

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Obsolete

"A SHORT DISCOURS Of the excellent Doctour and Knight,maiſter Leonardo phioravanti bolognese vppon Chirurgerie."
"IOHN HVIGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN. his Diſcours of Voyages into yͤ Easte & West Indies."
"Thus farr the occaſion of this diſcours againſt Tumults; now to the diſcours it ſelfe, voluble anough, and full of ſentence, but that, for the moſt part, either ſpecious rather then ſolid, or to his cauſe nothing pertinent."

discourses (plural)

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