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Running; flowing. Cursive hand,a running handwriting.

Running down; decurrent.

In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate (Bot.), having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.

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.

Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. -- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness, , n.

Making an incursion; invasive; aggressive; hostile.

Preceding; introductory; precursory. "A deep precursive sound." Coleridge.

Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

ich teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.

Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products. I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton.

Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton.

Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.

ower of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

r, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people. It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two -- for that…

hout deduction or reasoning. Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive. Milton.

dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.

Of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules. These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.

Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.