excursive adjective. [ɪk'skǝ:sɪv, ɛk-] L17.
[formed as EXCURSE + -IVE, perh. after discursive.]
1. Of the nature of an excursion; consisting of excursions or digressions. L17.
■ W. Irving We are wandering..into excursive speculations.

2. Making or tending to make excursions; ranging widely; apt to stray, digressive; desultory. M18.
■ S. Johnson An intelligence perpetually on the wing, excursive, vigorous, and diligent.
■ A. Helps Do keep to the point, my excursive friends.

■ excursively adverb L18.

■ excursiveness noun M18.

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