Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Desultory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Desultory.
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- adjective archaic
desultory
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Examples
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Only this I allege as an argument ad hominem, which sufficiently shews how slight and desultorious this man is in his principles and way of arguing, while at one time he frames to himself a principle for his present turn, and at another makes assertions, and raises discourses, which that principle most directly overthrows.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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O desultorious levity that knows not where to hold itself!
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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