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Definition of Disquisitions
1. disquisition [n] - See also: disquisition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disquisitions
Literary usage of Disquisitions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"logian, his reverence and yet his penetration, his profundity and yet his caution,
must study his disquisitions on the doctrines of the Trinity, ..."
2. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined by John Austin (1832)
"sent point of my Course, to the following purpose : namely, to shew that my
disquisitions on the hypothesis of utility, on the hypothesis of a moral sense, ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"Fancy may be supplied; but Truth once lost in the annals of mankind leaves a
chasm never to be filled ! QUODLIBETS, OR SCHOLASTIC disquisitions. ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1826)
"Vll. disquisitions upon the Painted Greek Vases, and their probable Connection
with the Shoias of the Eleusinian and other Mysteries. ..."
5. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... Affidavit in Ana—General Smith's Letter explanatory of his Affidavit—Its
valuable Explanations in other particulars—Later disquisitions and Madison's ..."
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