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Definition of Dissertate
1. Verb. Talk at length and formally about a topic. "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England"
Definition of Dissertate
1. v. i. To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.
Definition of Dissertate
1. [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissertate
Literary usage of Dissertate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor (1883)
"Certainly the Venus here is Venus Urania; the doctor would dissertate upon none
other; yet evert she, being a Venus — the sex is the sex — ay, Isaak ! ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1916)
"... Inch to Joachimsthaler. or to dissertate for nine lines on orient liquor.
These are not to be condemned off-hand; sometimes it requires a lot of ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... dissertate to one another than talk. They incline to discuss at great length
abstract questions of morals, theology, or taste; the pretty women only ..."
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