verb
- present tense participle of 'dissert': to write or speak at length on a subject; to discourse formally.
Usage: formal; rare in modern usage
Examples
- The professor was disserting on the history of medieval philosophy.
- He spent the evening disserting about climate change to anyone who would listen.
- She found him disserting at length about his favorite novels.
- The scholar was disserting in the seminar when the fire alarm interrupted.
- Rather than disserting endlessly, he decided to write a formal paper instead.