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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. talk at length and formally about a topic;
- Example: "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England"
[syn: hold forth, discourse, dissertate]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dissertate \Dis"ser*tate\, v. i. [L. dissertatus, p. p. of dissertare to discuss, intents, fr. disserere. See Dissert.] To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. [R.] --J. Foster. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dissertate v 1: talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England" [syn: hold forth, discourse, dissertate]