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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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