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Webster 1913 Edition
Discursive
1.
Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
“Discursive notices.” De Quincey.
The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but
discursive
. Hazlitt.
A man rather tacit than
discursive
. Carlyle.
2.
Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
– Dis-cur′sive-ly
, adv.
Dis-cur′sive-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Discursive
DISCURSIVE
,Adj.
1.
Moving or roving about; desultory.2.
Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding regularly from premises to consequences; sometimes written discursive. Whether brutes have a kind of discursive faculty.