disquisition

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a long, formal, and methodical discussion or written analysis of a subject

   The preface expands into a learned disquisition on the limits of political authority.

Borrowed through French from Latin disquīsītiō, 'inquiry or investigation,' from disquīrere, 'to investigate': dis-, 'apart,' plus quaerere, 'to seek or ask.' Its sense shifted from an inquiry to the discourse presenting one.

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