01 a. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
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Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.“The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive.” — Hazlitt.“A man rather tacit than discursive.” — Carlyle.
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Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.“Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive.” — Milton.