单词 | disquisition |
释义 | disquisition From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Communicationsdisquisitiondis‧qui‧si‧tion /ˌdɪskwəˈzɪʃən/ noun [countable] formalTCAPa long speech or written reportExamples from the Corpusdisquisition• Various readability formulas are described in the course of interesting disquisitions on readability by Hatt and by McClellan.• For my part, I endured a long disquisition on the Tractarians from a young and opinionated university liberal.• The sermons were stories instead of disquisitions.• Inevitably my entrance was an intrusion on one disquisition or another.Origin disquisition (1600-1700) Latin disquisitio, from disquirere “to try to get information” |
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