2. Verb. (third-person singular of descant) ¹
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Definition of Descants
1. descant [v] - See also: descant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descants
Literary usage of Descants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1852)
"... Foreign States—He descants at length upon the Impolicy of the Free-Trade System
and its ... descants ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1852)
"... moves an Address to the Crown praying the Adoption of a retaliatory Policy
towards non- reciprocating Foreign Slates—He descants at length upon the ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1851)
"... express their sense of his public and private virtues—Lord John Russell, in
the Home of Commons, descants in an ..."
4. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"amongst the said to Sita : — " 0 excellent woman, neither my fall from Kama
descants the throne of ..."
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