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disert

disert adjective: eloquent. Also the obsolete spelling of desert.

Adjective

disert (comparative more disert, superlative most disert)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Eloquent.
    • To John Foxe, his honoured Father, the faithfull Martyrologian[…]a most disert searcher into the Antiquities of Histories[…]1637, Jacob Verheiden, translated by Donald Lupton, The history of the moderne protestant divines, page 282
    • […]not that they are better, or more disert and eloquent than those [sc. books] of this learned Scotchman[…]1661, Gabriel Naudé, translated by John Evelyn, Instructions concerning erecting of a library presented to my lord, the President De Mesme, page 45

Also used as

disert is also the obsolete spelling of desert.

disert is also the obsolete spelling of dessert.

Forms of disert

Adjective
comparativemore disert
superlativemost disert
Noun
pluraldiserts
Verb
third-person singular presentdiserts
present participlediserting
past participlediserted
pastdiserted

Origin of disert

Borrowed from Latin disertus or French disert.

Alternative spellings.

Words formed from disert

Questions about disert

What does disert mean?
Disert means eloquent.
What part of speech is disert?
Disert is an adjective.

Words near disert in the dictionary

  1. disequilibration
  2. disequilibrations
  3. disequilibria
  4. disequilibrium
  5. disequilibriums
  6. disert
  7. disertly
  8. diserts
  9. diserve
  10. Dises
  11. disespoused

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