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adjective

Discoursive adj.

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

Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. "The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes."

Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Discoursive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discoursive" Quotes from Famous Books

... individuals agree. The number of individuals is infinite; the generic or specific nature of all being is a unit, or to be apprehended as one only thing; from this one conception we give the genuine measures of all existence, and therefore we affirm that a certain class of beings are rational and discoursive. But when we come to give the nature of a horse, it is that animal which neighs; and this being common to all horses, it is manifest that the understanding, which hath such like conceptions, is in its nature unity. It follows that the number called the infinite binary ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... effects; Retention and ejection in her powers Being acts alike; for this one vice of ours, That forms the thought, and sways the countenance, Rules both our motion and our utterance. 280 These and more grave conceits toil'd Hero's spirits; For, though the light of her discoursive wits Perhaps might find some little hole to pass Through all these worldly cinctures, yet, alas! There was a heavenly flame encompass'd her,— Her goddess, in whose fane she did prefer Her virgin vows, from whose impulsive sight ...

— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe