course (n.)
gist, scope, tenor
2H4 IV.v.143[Prince Henry to King Henry IV] But for my tears ... / I had forestalled this dear and deep rebuke / Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard / The course of it so far
CE II.ii.170[Antipholus of Syracuse to Dromio of Syracuse] What is the course and drift of your compact?
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