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• n  an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion

• Obama wanders into a casual disquisition about the sluggish nature of democracy.
• In the middle of a disquisition on libertarianism, Huckabee pauses to praise the musician Cher for tours that are "an amazing blend of rock concert, circus and fashion show.
• Wolf Blitzer had crashed through Bill Richardson's blowsy, high-minded disquisition on the need to observe human rights in Pakistan, with the question, "What you're saying .

News & Articles

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• A hodgepodge of a column
  A second look at a recent column, a vacation note and a lengthy disquisition on a topic of keen interest to some        
  July 8, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• John Keats in GC Advocate
  One December day in 1817, John Keats wrote to his brother the following: "I had not a dispute but a disquisition: on various subjects; several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement...
• George Washington in Huffington Post (blog)
  As Mohammed continued questioning Kohlmann, in what the Washington Post described as a "sometimes rambling disquisition," he was "frequently unsatisfied," as Josh Meyer described it in the Los Angeles Times, "and hit Kohlmann with a barrage...
• Cokie Roberts in Boston Globe (registration)
  Roberts warns that her book is not meant to be "a disquisition on 18th-century life," and that by definition the women she highlights led distinctly "elite" lives.