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DISCUSS, v.t. [L.] Literally, to drive; to beat or to shake in pieces; to separate by beating or shaking.

1. To disperse; to scatter; to dissolve; to repel; as, to discuss a tumor; a medical use of the word.

2. To debate; to agitate by argument; to clear of objections and difficulties, with a view to find or illustrate truth; to sift; to examine by disputation; to ventilate; to reason on, for the purpose of separating truth from falsehood. We discuss a subject, a point, a problem, a question, the propriety, expedience or justice of a measure, &c.

3. To break in pieces. [The primary sense, but not used.]

4. To shake off. [Not in use.]


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DISCUSS, v.t. [L.] Literally, to drive; to beat or to shake in pieces; to separate by beating or shaking.

1. To disperse; to scatter; to dissolve; to repel; as, to discuss a tumor; a medical use of the word.

2. To debate; to agitate by argument; to clear of objections and difficulties, with a view to find or illustrate truth; to sift; to examine by disputation; to ventilate; to reason on, for the purpose of separating truth from falsehood. We discuss a subject, a point, a problem, a question, the propriety, expedience or justice of a measure, &c.

3. To break in pieces. [The primary sense, but not used.]

4. To shake off. [Not in use.]

DIS-CUSS', v.t. [L. discutio, discussum; dis and quatio; Fr. discuter; Sp. discutir. Quatio may be allied to quasso, and to cudo and cædo, to strike. See Class Gs, No. 17, 23, 68, 79, and Class Gd, No. 38, 40, 76. Literally, to drive; to beat or to shake in pieces; to separate by beating or shaking.]

  1. To disperse; to scatter; to dissolve; to repel; as, to discuss a tumor; a medical use of the word.
  2. To debate; to agitate by argument; to clear of objections and difficulties, with a view to find or illustrate truth; to sift; to examine by disputation; to ventilate; to reason on, for the purpose of separating truth from falsehood. We discuss a subject, a point, a problem, a question, the propriety, expedience or justice of a measure, &c.
  3. To break in pieces. – Brown.
  4. To shake off. [Not in use.] – Spenser.
  5. The primary sense of the word is heard in the colloquial phrases, to discuss a fowl, to discuss a bottle of wine.

Dis*cuss"
  1. To break to pieces; to shatter.

    [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
  2. To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.

    Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton.

    A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

  3. To shake; to put away; to finish.

    [Obs.]

    All regard of shame she had discussed. Spenser.

  4. To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.

    "We sat and . . . discussed the farm . . . and the price of grain." Tennyson. "To discuss questions of taste." Macaulay.
  5. To deal with, in eating or drinking.

    [Colloq.]

    We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us. Sir S. Baker.

  6. To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

    Burrill.

    Syn. -- To Discuss, Examine, Debate. We speak of examining a subject when we ponder it with care, in order to discover its real state, or the truth respecting it. We speak of discussing a topic when we examine it thoroughly in its distinct parts. The word is very commonly applied to matters of opinion. We may discuss a subject without giving in an adhesion to any conclusion. We speak of debating a point when we examine it in mutual argumentation between opposing parties. In debate we contend for or against some conclusion or view.

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Discuss

DISCUSS, verb transitive [Latin] Literally, to drive; to beat or to shake in pieces; to separate by beating or shaking.

1. To disperse; to scatter; to dissolve; to repel; as, to discuss a tumor; a medical use of the word.

2. To debate; to agitate by argument; to clear of objections and difficulties, with a view to find or illustrate truth; to sift; to examine by disputation; to ventilate; to reason on, for the purpose of separating truth from falsehood. We discuss a subject, a point, a problem, a question, the propriety, expedience or justice of a measure, etc.

3. To break in pieces. [The primary sense, but not used.]

4. To shake off. [Not in use.]

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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UNIVERS'AL, a. [L. universalis;unus and versor.]

1. All; extending to or comprehending the whole number, quantity or space; as universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence.

The universal cause acts not by partial, but by general laws.

2. Total; whole.

From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, this universal frame began.

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4. In botany, a universal umbel, is a primary or general umbel; the first or largest set of rays in a compound umbel; opposed to partial. A universal involucre is placed at the foot of a universal umbel.

Universal instrument, is one which measures all kinds of distances, lengths, &c.; as the pantometer or holometer.

Universal dial, is a dial by which the hour may be found by the sun in any part of the world, or under any elevation of the pole.

Universal proposition. [See the noun.]

UNIVERS'AL, n. [See the adjective.]

1. In logic, a universal is complex or incomplex. A complex universal, is either a universal proposition, as "every whole is greater than its parts," or whatever raises a manifold conception in the mind, as the definition of a reasonable animal.

An incomplex universal, is what produces one conception only in the mind, and is a simple thing respecting many; as human nature, which relates to every individual in which it is found.

2. The whole; the general system of the universe. [Not in use.]

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