Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to disquisition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
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- adjective Pertaining to
disquisition ; of the nature of disquisition.
Etymologies
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Examples
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From Florence, you may, perhaps hear from me again, and receive a description instead of a disquisitional letter.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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Spurlock possessed a vigorous intellect, critical, disquisitional, creative; and yet he saw nothing remarkable in the girl's readiness to marry him!
The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901
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Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Aesop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers.
Fables Aesop 1880
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