excursive

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excursive (comparative more excursive, superlative most excursive)

  1. Tending to digress.
    • 1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, Contemplation, page 3:
      Or evening, in her starry mantle bright,
      Precedes the slow majestic train of night;
      In that still hour the mind excursive roves,
      A heavenly voice the listening spirit moves.
    • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter V, in Duty and Inclination: [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 61:
      By such means he flattered himself that in time he should subvert her fine understanding, and, by the contamination of her hitherto unsullied mind, reduce her to a level with himself,—and this he meditated to effect by slow and gradual operations, through the medium of her imagination, which he had discovered to be warm and excursive; []
  2. Tending to go out.
    • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      Then into the quiet room came Susan Nipper and the candles; shortly afterwards, the tea, the Captain, and the excursive Mr Toots, who, as above mentioned, was frequently on the move afterwards, and passed but a restless evening.
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