cursorary
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cursorary (comparative more cursorary, superlative most cursorary)
- (obsolete or nonstandard) cursory; hasty
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- with a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles
References
[edit]- “cursorary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.