- Debate - Dialogue - 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. - Conversation; talk. - The art and manner of speaking and conversing. - 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. - Dealing; transaction.