disquisition• Various readability formulas are described in the course of interesting disquisitions on readability by Hatt and by McClellan.• For my part, I endured a long disquisition on the Tractarians from a young and opinionated university liberal.• The sermons were stories instead of disquisitions.• Inevitably my entrance was an intrusion on one disquisition or another.
Origindisquisition
(1600-1700)Latindisquisitio, from disquirere“to try to get information”