discuss

verb

Etymology: From Middle English discussen, from Middle French and Anglo-Norman discusser (French discuter), from Latin discussus, past participle of discutiō (“to strike or shake apart, break up, scatter; examine, discuss”), from dis- (“apart”) + quatiō (“to shake”).

1. To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.

   “Let's sit down and discuss whether we should have a baby.”

   “I don't wish to discuss this further.”

2. To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).

   “Nym: I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.”

   “Pistol: Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?”

3. To break to pieces; to shatter.
4. To deal with, in eating or drinking; consume.

   “When the preparations were finished, he invited me with—“Now, sir, bring forward your chair.” And we all, including the rustic youth, drew round the table: an austere silence prevailing while we discussed our meal.”

   “We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.”

5. To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
6. To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.

   “For she was giuen all to fleshly lust, / And poured forth in sensuall delight, / That all regard of shame she had discust, / And meet respect of honour put to flight […]”

   “If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which ſhall bee given him, […]”