0 a long and detailed explanation of a particular subject
In this tract nothing deserves notice, more than that Browne considers the oracles as evidently and indubitably supernatural, and founds all his disquisition upon that postulate.
It is a lengthened disquisition, in seven thousand four hundred lines, upon the great phenomena of the outward world.
The national historian of Rome has left us an episode of his great work, a disquisition on the probable effects that would have followed if Alexander the Great had invaded Italy.
We have been led to this disquisition into the fundamental nature of this private record by the question put to us, whether it is a good plan for a woman to keep a diary.
We intend to kindle, not to extinguish, curiosity, by this slight sketch of a work, abounding with curious quotations and pleasing disquisitions.
Second, the book transcends mere theoretical disquisition and empirical analysis, bringing prevalent strains of political theory vividly to life.
But here as so often in grammatical disquisitions these terms explain nothing.
Then follows a learned and entertaining disquisition on family nomenclature.