Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-CURS'IVE
DIS-CURS'IVE, a. [Sp. discursivo, from L. discurro, supra.]
- Moving or roving about; desultory. – Bacon.
- Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding regularly from premises to consequences; sometimes written discoursive. Whether brutes have a kind of discursive faculty. – Hale.
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