Dis‐cur″sive (?), a. [Cf. F. discursif. See Discourse, and cf. Discoursive.] 1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. “Discursive notices.” De Quincey.
The power he delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt.
A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.
2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
Reason is her being,
Discursive or intuitive. Milton.
— Dis‐cur″sive‐ly, adv. — Dis‐cur″sive‐ness, n.