discanted

For many ages men, and particularly those engaged in the literary field of thought, have discanted on the baseness of the passion of jealousy.

The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries John N. Reynolds

The unexpected vision lifted Enoch out of himself for a little while and he listened, interested and amused, while Curly, half turned in his saddle, discanted on mirages and their interpretations.

The Enchanted Canyon Honor�� Morrow 1910

Our whims and caprices are discanted on with apparent earnestness of truth, and seeming sincerity of conviction.

The Drama Henry Brodribb Irving 1894

For many ages men, and particularly those engaged in the literary field of thought, have discanted on the baseness of the passion of jealousy.

The Twin Hells 1890

Here, also, in the evenings of the same holy day, he was wont to gather a meeting of old people, to whom he discanted on the same "old, old story."

Philosopher Jack 1859

Under the second article, he discanted largely on the pretension of

A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Hosea Ballou 1811

The liberty of the citizen, and false imprisonment were discanted on in a loud and moving manner.

A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. Benjamin Waterhouse 1800

Landlord discanted very copiously upon the ancient and modern Practise of Robbing upon the Road, and seem'd very much inclin'd to lessen the

Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) Daniel Defoe 1696

Lord Arlington's letter thereon; in which are such strong inculcations of continuing friendship with the Spaniards here, that he doubts he shall be highly discanted on by some persons for granting commissions against them; must beg his Grace to bring him off, or at least that the necessity of this proceeding may be taken into serious debate and then doubts not but true English judges will confirm what he has done. "

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922