Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Breaking up and scattering morbid affections, as tumors; discutient.
  • Having the power to settle or bring to a conclusion; determinative; decisive.
  • noun A medicine that disperses or scatters; a discutient.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter; discutient.
  • adjective rare Doubt-dispelling; decisive.
  • noun (Med.) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine, dated A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.

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Examples

  • Another variant on supervaluationism is Jaśkowski's paraconsistent (see the entry on paraconsistent logic) “discussive logic” which underwrites a type (3) response to the conditional sorites.

    Sorites Paradox Hyde, Dominic 2005

  • He would be the first to sanction all this poetic discussive intensity at the curbside, the liberty and freedom of the café, the excellence of a divine Tuesday evening.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

  • The parties to an argument, absorbed in admiration of their own opinions, seek not to become wiser through discourse, which should be the end sought in all Conversation of an argumentative or discussive character, but seek only to draw attention to their own views and opinions; until that which should be Conversation degenerates into a mere war of words, in which each party strives to talk down, rather than to convince, the other.

    The Elements of Character Mary G. Chandler

  • Neither was he more receptive or discussive at supper time.

    Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • It would have been fair, if you're doing this for purely discussive value, to provide a link of answered alleged contradictions, but that's just my opinion.

    unknown title 2009

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