discant
English
Noun
discant (plural discants)
- Alternative form of descant
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for discant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Verb
discant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of discō
- indocti discant et ament meminisse perīti
- Let the unlearned learn and let the experts love to remember.
- indocti discant et ament meminisse perīti
Further reading
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations — Quote 3506