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Synonyms for excursive


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ik-skur-siv
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈskɜr sɪv



Définition of excursive

  • adj discursive
Example sentences :
  • This may be a typographic error for either exclusive or excursive.
  • Extract from : « The Key to Yesterday » by Charles Neville Buck
  • Another most important corollary of this excursive theory must just be mentioned here.
  • Extract from : « Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death » by Frederick W. H. Myers
  • This hint, here thrown out as an additional argument for the excursive theory, will fall to be developed later on.
  • Extract from : « Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death » by Frederick W. H. Myers
  • How much of consciousness, if any, may be felt at the point where the excursive phantasm is seen, we cannot say.
  • Extract from : « Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death » by Frederick W. H. Myers
  • The great English writers have written with a free hand, prolific, excursive, diffuse.
  • Extract from : « Emerson and Other Essays » by John Jay Chapman
  • With him she would have the free and useful, the amusing and excursive life of an American woman married to a man of wealth.
  • Extract from : « The Precipice » by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
  • At the concluding word, Mrs. Chump was no longer sustained by her excursive fancy.
  • Extract from : « Sandra Belloni, Complete » by George Meredith
  • But the argument is one of too grave, too intricate, and excursive a character, to be attempted here.
  • Extract from : « Charlemont » by W. Gilmore Simms
  • Endowed, probably, with but slender imagination, he found little charm or flavor in excursive abstractions.
  • Extract from : « Calvert and Penn » by Brantz Mayer
  • This excursive disposition does not narrow his enjoyment of what is best in town life.
  • Extract from : « Famous Authors (Men) » by E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins

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