The word disquisition has appeared in 15 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 12 in the essay The Ahab Parallax: 'Moby. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
To this may be added that too subtle disquisition, which is an invention unsanctioned by Scripture, about the relations of those acts which are performed by us. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
PS Krugman also taught me a new word today, "disquisition". From Wordnik.com. [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth] Reference
He pursued, with visible pleasure, that kind of disquisition which was naturally suggested by them. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
"disquisition," while the Scotchman was, above all things, a. From Wordnik.com. [From Chaucer to Tennyson] Reference
Two episodes interrupted the polemical disquisition. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
This disquisition on Yiddish is the latest Kozinski frolic. From Wordnik.com. [Shnook & Shnook] Reference
But miracles may be the subject of a particular disquisition. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
They present no ambitious attempts at metaphysical disquisition. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
The long disquisition on the acquirement of speech is supplemented by. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
Dryden's Moribund runs on, quite at his ease, in eloquent disquisition. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
It seemed to McLean a most extraordinary time for a disquisition upon Anubis. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
The disquisition on the reasons for the Euxine's freezing over is, however, new. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
Dr. Kennedy, in his recent interesting disquisition on pet-names (No. 16.p. 242.), supposes that Jaques was. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850] Reference
He launched into a long disquisition on the state of the world, and, after a while, stopped to catch his breath. From Wordnik.com. [Political Lives: Is Bush Unbeatable In 2004 Election?] Reference
Among them is the following characteristic of the man and his feelings, noted down for some future disquisition. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
The purpose of this disquisition is to refute the Necessitarians; it is resumed in the third chapter of this Book. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
It is in disquisition that he rejoices, and succeeds; it is the argumentative matter which excites and sustains him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
But men make strange distinctions between speech and action, not to be accounted for without long investigation and disquisition. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
But naturally people fastened onto Jackson's disquisition about how "the most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.". From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers] Reference
The importance of the interests involved perhaps demands a long disquisition, but the close union of our hearts is contented with brevity. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Before I take leave of this lengthy and somewhat elaborate disquisition, let me give my explanation of the scope of the Psalm in dispute, which. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc] Reference
This was a very poor and paltry experience, but it enabled me to understand better than any amount of disquisition how it is that clairvoyants see. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
This writer, thereupon, goes into a disquisition upon the vitality of long-buried seeds, but only to mar the value of his very important observation. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
And having given the necessary respite of unexciting disquisition to rest our readers 'minds, we shall again bring forward one of his glowing pictures. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
A strange, unclassifiable book, "Family" incorporates memoir, essays, travel writing and even a quick disquisition on the author's lack of golfing prowess. From Wordnik.com. [In The Mom And Dad Museum] Reference
No treat was greater, no honour more esteemed, than a visit to that study and a learned disquisition there on its owner's favourite books or methods of work. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference
This seemed such a promising topic that they got out the encyclopædia and found to their joy that there was quite a lengthy and learned disquisition on the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Taking this for encouragement, Dumas launched out into a disquisition on the history of the duello through the ages that was nearly as long as one of his own serials. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
Mr. Wordsworth, in his recent collection, has, I find, degraded this prefatory disquisition to the end of his second volume, to be read or not at the reader's choice. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
My own conclusions on the nature of poetry, in the strictest use of the word, have been in part anticipated in the preceding disquisition on the fancy and imagination. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Here, therefore, the way will be deeper, and the travelling slower; the opposition is much, and therefore the disquisition of this matter will unavoidably be the more. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
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