discant

English

Noun

discant (plural discants)

  1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

  1. 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.

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