Assert and Discourse

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• Extended verbal expression in speech or writing.
• An address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service.
  • synonyms: sermon, preaching
• An extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic.
  • usage: "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"
  • synonyms: discussion, treatment

verb

• To consider or examine in speech or writing.
  • usage: "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"
  • synonyms: talk about, discuss
• Carry on a conversation.
  • synonyms: converse
• Talk at length and formally about a topic.
  • usage: "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England"
  • synonyms: hold forth, dissertate

• (v.i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
• (v.i.) To relate something; to tell.
• (n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
• (v.t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
• (v.i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
• (n.) Dealing; transaction.
• (n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
• (n.) Conversation; talk.
• (v.t.) To talk to; to confer with.
• (v.i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
• (n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
• (v.t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.