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Synonyms for discursive
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dih-skur-siv |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈskɜr sɪv |
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Définition of discursive
Origin :- 1590s, from Middle French discursif, from Medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discursus "a running about" (see discourse). Related: Discursively.
- adj rambling
- The old lady began to seem to him a thought too discursive, if not hilarious.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- The utterance of that name seemed to recall her from the discursive babble.
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- With one such illustration we conclude this discursive fragment.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 » by Various
- For the author's mind is, in the best sense of the word, a discursive one.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 » by Various
- Maldonado was double-handed, either syllogistic or discursive.
- Extract from : « Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits » by Thomas Hughes
- Fox-hunting is not the theme, but the conversation is loud, animated, and discursive.
- Extract from : « Seeing and Hearing » by George W. E. Russell
- The amount of discursive detail in this version is moderate.
- Extract from : « Seven Mohave Myths » by A. L. Kroeber
- Again, let the required nature be the discursive power of the mind.
- Extract from : « Novum Organum » by Francis Bacon
- Mr. Pink brightened; he evidently wished me to be discursive.
- Extract from : « An American Girl in London » by Sara Jeannette Duncan
- If a writing of this kind be not flexible, unpretending, discursive, it has no right to be at all.
- Extract from : « Hawthorne and His Circle » by Julian Hawthorne
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