discursory

English

Adjective

discursory (not comparable)

1. argumentative; discursive; reasoning
   • 1615, Bishop Joseph Hall, Works: Volume I, Dedication:

     Divinity , like some great lady , every day in several dresses : speculation interchanged with experience ; positive theology with polemical ; textual with discursory ; popular with scholastical

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discursory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)