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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a recreative manner; with recreation or diversion.

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  • I've shown man to be a writing animal; and writing, what it is and is not; and meanwhile have been routing recreatively at pen's point whims, and fancies, and ideas, and images, pulled in manfully by head and shoulders: and now -- after an episode, quite relevant and quite

    An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • I've shown man to be a writing animal; and writing, what it is and is not; and meanwhile have been routing recreatively at pen's point whims, and fancies, and ideas, and images, pulled in manfully by head and shoulders: and now -- after an episode, quite relevant and quite

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

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