Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an excursive manner.
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- adverb In an
excursive manner.
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Keeping the general history which he has been reading as his text, and getting from it the skeleton, in a manner, of the future figure, he must now break forth excursively to the right and left, collecting richness and fulness of knowledge from the most various sources.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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The flesh of animals who feed excursively, is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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But though England might be his workshop for books dreamed of in Italy, yet the aspect of English life seems much more fittingly represented by his less excursively imaginative side, as in “Our Old Home,” than in a romance.
A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876
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But though England might be his workshop for books dreamed of in Italy, yet the aspect of English life seems much more fittingly represented by his less excursively imaginative side, as in "Our Old Home," than in a romance.
A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874
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The flesh of animals who feed excursively, is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.
Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767
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