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adjective

Discursive adj.

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." "The power he (Shakespeare) delights to show is not intense, but discursive." "A man rather tacit than discursive."

Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. "Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discursive" Quotes from Famous Books

... sorghum, silently skimming. His composure was somewhat ruffled, and in throwing away the scum his gesture was of negligent and discursive aim; the boiling fluid bespattered the foot of one of the omnipresent dogs, whose shrieks rent the sky and whose activity on three legs amazed the earth. He ran yelping to Mrs. Grinnell, nearly overturning her in his turbulent demand for ...

— The Riddle Of The Rocks - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

... stroking Miriam's hand, a white hand with blue veins—a strong hand, though so delicately fashioned. The touch of the wedding-ring again gave a new direction to his discursive thoughts. ...

— The Emancipated • George Gissing

... the adventures of the pioneers of British North America, I think—even if it seems wearisome and discursive—my readers would better understand this story if I placed before them a general description of what is now the Dominion of Canada, more particularly as it was seen and discovered by the earliest ...

— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston

... patron day of a St. Mocholmoc, na hainse, "of the island," at the 30th October. Could we find what was the patron day of the saint of Inche Colm it might help to settle the matter. One of the above saints is called Colman Ailither, or the pilgrim. Chattering in my discursive way, let me add that a Saint Mocholmoc appears to have been a favourite with the Danes of Dublin in the twelfth century, for we find in the lists of the Danish Kings of Dublin that of Donald MacGilloholmoch ...

— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson

... page. Before this is turned, you have some pleasant comedy of London in war-time, and meet a number of agreeably sketched persons, whose conversation may amuse you, or, on the other hand, may cause you to wish them a little less discursive. Madame ALBANESI indeed impressed me as having occasionally turned her subordinate characters loose into a chapter, with instructions to fill it up anyhow, while she herself thought out the next move. But the law was always leisurely, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, January 10, 1917 • Various

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