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   Discursive (?), a. [Cf. F. discursif. See Discourse, and cf. Discoursive.]
   1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. “Discursive notices.”  De Quincey.
   
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   The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt.
   
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   A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.
   
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   2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
   
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   Reason is her being,
   
   Discursive or intuitive. Milton.
   
   -- Discursively, adv. -- Discursiveness, n.
   
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