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Definition of Descanted
1. descant [v] - See also: descant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descanted
Literary usage of Descanted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pharsalia of Lucan by Lucan (1853)
"His wounds are described, and his praises descanted upon, 247-262. Pompey attacks
the outworks nearer to the sea, 263-278. Caesar prepares to renew the ..."
2. The Public and Private Life of His Late ... Majesty, George the Third by Robert Huish (1821)
"Had it been our province to have descanted at large upon the political history
of the country, that celebrated statesman would have stood conspicuous upon ..."
3. Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns by Hartley Coleridge (1833)
"The lines introductory to the noble burst of feeling on which we have descanted,
are a very good sample of what was then accounted the best versification ..."
4. The Republic of El Salvador Against the Republic of Nicaragua: Opinion and by Corte de Justicia Centroamericana, El Salvador, Nicaragua, United States (1917)
"... title to which it has so often descanted upon in these later times, it has no
right to exercise its sovereignty at the cost of the whole, of which it is ..."
5. The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire: Being Lives of the Most by Hartley Coleridge (1836)
"The lines introductory to the noble burst of feeling on which we have descanted,
are a very good sample of what was then accounted the best versification ..."
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