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Excursive

adjective
1.
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.  Synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling.  "A rambling discursive book" , "His excursive remarks" , "A rambling speech about this and that"





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"Excursive" Quotes from Famous Books



... Trinity College, Dublin, and he remained there until 1748, when he took his Bachelor's degree. These five years do not appear to have been spent in strenuous industry in the beaten paths of academic routine. Like so many other men of great gifts, Burke in his youth was desultory and excursive. He roamed at large over the varied heights that tempt our curiosity, as the dawn of intelligence first lights them up one after another with bewitching visions and illusive magic. "All my studies," Burke wrote ...
— Burke • John Morley
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Words linked to "Excursive" :   indirect, discursive


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