2 entries under this word
a. [See DISCURSIVE.] 1. Reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton. 2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is interlaced with dialogue or discursive scenes. Dryden. 3. Inclined to converse; communicative; as, a discursive man. A. Wood.
a. [Fr. discursif, Pr. discursiu, Sp., Pg., & It. discursivo. See DISCOURSE.] 1. Capable of knowing and inferring by discourse; rational; discursive. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. Milton. 2. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; various; rambling; digressive. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. Into these discursive notices we have allowed ourselves to wander. De Quincey.