discursive

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He was interesting and inconclusive, and the original papers to which he referred her discursive were at best only suggestive.

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  1. adjective Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling.
  2. adjective Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition.

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  • I have heard Father Payne speak of them with admiration as never being discursive, and I gathered that the Vicar was a great admirer of Newman's sermons. —  Father Payne
  • Conversation grave, discursive, and disputatious, such as Johnson excelled and delighted in, was to him a severe task, and he never was good at a task of any kind. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • His nine-book history of the Persian wars is gossipy, discursive, outrageous, frequently inaccurate and always brilliantly entertaining. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • To truly understand these as either a commercial object or a discursive object, it would be necessary to understand the primary intention of the designer, which cannot always be read from the objects-especially in hybrids.
  • If you just want to talk about "discursive" design because that is what you are writing a book about, then just do it.
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  1. Medieval Latin discursīvus, from Latin discursus, running about; see discourse.

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  1. = French discursif = Provencal discursiu = Spanish Portuguese Italian discursivo, from Middle Latin *discursivus, from Latin discursus, past participle of discurrere, run to and fro, Late Latin speak at length: see discourse. Cf. discoursive.
 

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/dɪsˈkərsɪv/
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