Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton.
Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden.
Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. [R.]
The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason. [R.] Feltham.
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