Borrowed fromLatindisceptō.

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛpt/
• Rhymes:-ɛpt

discept (third-person singular simple presentdiscepts,present participlediscepting,simple past and past participlediscepted)

1. (archaic) Todebate; todiscuss.
   • 1818,Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, inNightmare Abbey:

     MR.FLOSKY: Permit me todiscept. They are the mediums of common forms combined and arranged into a common standard. The ideal beauty of the Helen of Zeuxis was the combined medium of the real beauty of the virgins of Crotona.

   • 1868–1869,Robert Browning, “(please specify the page)”, inThe Ring and the Book. […], volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), London:Smith, Elder and Co.,→OCLC:

     I love it with my heart : unsatisfied , I try it with my reason , nordiscept / From any point I probe and pronounce sound.

• disceptation

• “discept”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

• depicts

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