Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the nature of discourse or reason; rational; argumentative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Argumentative; discursive; reasoning.
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- adjective
argumentative ;discursive ;reasoning
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Examples
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Going on in this discursory haphazard way while he dressed, he made me feel much at home.
Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Going on in this discursory haphazard way while he dressed, he made me feel much at home.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Going on in this discursory haphazard way while he dressed, he made me feel much at home.
Richard Carvel — Volume 05 Winston Churchill 1909
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I retain, therefore, my dodecahedric form of catechism as sufficiently clear; and without binding myself to follow the order of it in strictness, if there be motive for discursory remark, it will certainly prevent my leaving any bird insufficiently distinguished, and enable me to arrange the collected statements about it in the most easily compared order.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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