1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. A.iii Many thynges mo there might yet be here brought in concernyng this sentence, but thus muche I thynke to be sufficiente for our discoursyng at this time.

1559 Bp. Scot in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. ii. App. x. 33 Let the prestes..meet together..for the discoursinge therof.

1667 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. 37 Plato's discoursings about practicall matters are exceeding handsome and pertinent.

1683 W. Hacke Coll. Orig. Voy. (1699) i. 7 We concluded the discoursing of Women at Sea was very unlucky, and occasioned the Storm.

1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (new ed.) V. iv. 82 In vain did James, by re-iterated proclamations, forbid the discoursing of state affairs.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxviii. 442 Mrs. Gamp and Mr. Sweedlepipe had many deep discoursings on the subject of this mysterious customer.

1894 Athenæum 17 Mar. 339/1 To listen to the discoursing of an accomplished man of letters..is always a pleasure.

1922 B. Jenkins Bracegirdle x. 178 After some half hour or more of laughter and discoursing, we seemed all to move by one consent out of the play-house.

1992 Ethos 20 221 It is similar to the discoursing that goes on in fieldwork, but, in my opinion, more balanced.

1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. iii. f. 134^v Discoursing parlament machiauellistes, and all other what so euer flesh-wormes, Merchantes, idle artificers.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 25 A busie head, a discoursing tong, and a factious harte.

1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. sig. E2^v Fie on these Philosophicall discoursing women, prethee conferre with me like a creature made of flesh and blood.

1655 T. Ady Candle in Dark i. 68 The common fond tradition, that Python..was a real familiar visible discoursing Devil.

1891 Daily News 2 Oct. 5/6 Mrs. Theodore Fry..and Miss Orme, were the discoursing ladies.

1921 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Enthusiast v. 46 She eyed the discoursing dowagers, appraising their enjoyment and engrossment.

1980 P. Weiss You, I & Others iv. 291 Whatever rules a language exhibits and which a discourse uses are involved both with the words interchanged and with the discoursing men.

2011 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 25 Mar. A lively, growing and discoursing literary scene depends on a variety of voices and perspectives.

1571 E. Grant tr. Plutarch President for Parentes sig. Dvi In the entrayles of fyne discoursing speache.

1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 19 But they do want that quicke discoursing power, Which doth in vs the erring sense correct.

1638 K. Digby in G. Digby & K. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 14 The Fathers works..will fairly inform a rational and discoursing man of the true state of them.

1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. v. 156 Motives..sufficient to induce a discoursing man to forsake the Jesuits.

1687 J. Phillips tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iv. ix. 573 'Twas no Impostor sold thee to me; wise understanding Head, discoursing Head, miraculous and matchless Head.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 1 And though the Sects of Philosophers of that Kinde be gone, yet there remaine certaine discoursing Wits.

1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall iii. sig. G We..Frame strange conceits, in our discoursing braines.