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/dɪskˈərsɪv/ Listen

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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Etymology of 'Discursive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discursive" Quotes from Famous Books

... its objects are not things of reflection, association, discursion, discourse in the old sense of the word as opposed to intuition; "discursive or intuitive," as Milton has it. Reason does not indeed necessarily exclude the finite, either in time or in space, but it includes them eminenter. Thus the prime mover of the material universe is affirmed to contain all motion ...

— Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc. • by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... life seems to have culminated, the little doubts she has thrust out or tried to overlive. Somehow she appears to have worked a great and unwitting change in the Grandon family. Once, when Denise was in a discursive mood, she told Violet of Mr. Wilmarth's proposal of marriage. What if she had married him? Violet thinks now. Marcia talks about her "Vulcan" with a curious pride, and he certainly is indulgent. In that case Violet would have marred ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... and discursive article[84] by T. Baden, containing a description and analysis of the gestures and posture of a number of familiar figures from comedy exemplified in some collections of statuettes (chiefly those in Borgia's ...

— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • Wilton Wallace Blancke

... took him back to Hatherleigh's rooms and drank beer and smoked about him while he nursed his knee with hairy wristed hands that protruded from his flannel shirt, and drank lemonade under the cartoon of that emancipated Worker, and we had a great discursive talk ...

— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells

... essence is characterized by reason, this our summit is rational, and though it subsists in energy, yet it has a remitted union with things themselves. Though too it energizes from itself, and contains intelligibles in its essence, yet from its alliance to the discursive nature of soul, and its inclination to that which is divisible, it falls short of the perfection of an intellectual essence and energy profoundly indivisible and united, and the intelligibles which it contains degenerate from the transcendently ...

— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor

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