DISCURSIVE
Dis*cur"sive, a. Etym: [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 [Shakespeare] 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.
DISCURSORY
Dis*cur`so*ry, a.
Defn: Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. [R.] Bp. Hall.
DISCURSUS
Dis*cur"sus, n. Etym: [L.] (Logic)
Defn: Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.
DISCUS
Dis"cus, n.; pl. E. Discuses, L. Disci. Etym: [L. See Disk.]
1. (a) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill. (b) The exercise with the discus.
Note: This among the Greeks was one of the chief gymnastic exercises and was included in the Pentathlon (the contest of the five exercises). The chief contest was that of throwing the discus to the greatest possible distance.