Lexicographical Neighbors of Discanted
Literary usage of Discanted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. German Atrocities, Their Nature and Philosophy: Studies in Belgium and by Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, Newell Dwight Hillis (1918)
"With what effect, assured that they stood upon safe ground, could they have
discanted upon the "impairment of public respect for that tribunal! ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"After this, motion for Adjournment, whilst CONY- BEARE discanted on Saturday's
performance in Trafalgar Square. Dr. CLARK gave interesting account of ..."
3. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1909)
"both sides: the Mechanics' committee, in a long and wordy address, discanted on
the danger of "oligarchy,"02 while extreme conservatives complained of the ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"And again, who will deny that wit—' But wis to advantage dressed,'—when musically
discanted, with poin J with fancy, with buoyancy, with brightness, ..."
5. England and Germany, 1740-1914 by Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1916)
"... a catspaw in her quarrels with Russia; he often discanted upon that hypocrisy
which most Germans believe is the dominant trait of the English character. ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1806)
"... also, are there advanced, unguarded by thr qualifications which he would
undoubtedly have introduced, had he more largely discanted on them. ..."
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