Disculpate
(Dis*cul"pate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disculpated; p. pr. & vb. n. Disculpating.] [LL. disculpatus,
p. p. of disculpare to disculpate; dis- + L. culpare to blame, culpa fault.] To free from blame or the
imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself.
Walpole. Disculpation
(Dis`cul*pa"tion) n. [Cf. F. disculpation.] Exculpation. Burke.
Disculpatory
(Dis*cul"pa*to*ry) a. Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.
Discumbency
(Dis*cum"ben*cy) n. [From L. discumbens, p. pr. of discumbere. See Discubitory.]
The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.
Discumber
(Dis*cum"ber) v. t. [Pref. dis- + cumber: cf. OF. descombrer.] To free from that which
cumbers or impedes; to disencumber. [Archaic] Pope.
Discure
(Dis*cure") v. t. [See Discover.] To discover; to reveal; to discoure. [Obs.]
I will, if please you it discure, assay
To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may.
Spenser. Discurrent
(Dis*cur"rent) a. Not current or free to circulate; not in use. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.
Discursion
(Dis*cur"sion) n. [LL. discursio a running different ways. See Discourse.] The act of discoursing
or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.
Discursist
(Dis*cur"sist), n. A discourser. [Obs.] L. Addison.
Discursive
(Dis*cur"sive) a. [Cf. F. discursif. See Discourse, and cf. Discoursive.]
1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive
notices." De Quincey.
The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive.
Hazlitt.
A man rather tacit than discursive.
Carlyle. 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
Reason is her being,
Discursive or intuitive.
Milton. — Dis*cur"sive*ly, adv. — Dis*cur"sive*ness, n.
Discursory
(Dis*cur`so*ry) a. Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. [R.] Bp. Hall.
Discursus
(Dis*cur"sus) n. [L.] (Logic) Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.
Discus
(Dis"cus) n.; pl. E. Discuses L. Disci [L. See Disk.]
1. (a) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength
and skill. (b) The exercise with the discus.
This among the Greeks was one of the chief gymnastic exercises and was included in the Pentathlon
(the contest of the five exercises). The chief contest was that of throwing the discus to the greatest
possible distance.
2. A disk. See Disk.
