a. [ LL. cursivus: cf. F. cursif See Cursitor. ] Running; flowing. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cursive hand,
n.
a. [ Cf. F. décursif. See Decurrent. ] Running down; decurrent. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a decursive manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
Decursively pinnate (Bot.),
a. [ Cf. F. discursif. See Discourse, and cf. Discoursive. ]
The power he [ Shakespeare ] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]
A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
Reason is her being,
Discursive or intuitive. Milton.
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a. Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring;
The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor.
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a. Making an incursion; invasive; aggressive; hostile. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Preceding; introductory; precursory. “A deep precursive sound.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]