Discursiveadjective
(of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
Discussivenoun
A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.
Discursiveadjective
(philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
Discussiveadjective
Able or tending to discuss, or disperse, tumors or coagulated matter.
Discursiveadjective
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.’; ‘A man rather tacit than discursive.’;
Discussiveadjective
(dated) Doubt-dispelling; decisive.
Discursiveadjective
Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
‘Reason is her being,Discursive or intuitive.’;
Discussiveadjective
Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter; discutient.
Discursiveadjective
proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
Discussiveadjective
Doubt-dispelling; decisive.
‘A kind of peremptory and discussive voice.’;
Discursiveadjective
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects;
‘amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things’; ‘a rambling discursive book’; ‘his excursive remarks’; ‘a rambling speech about this and that’;
Discussivenoun
A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.
