excursive

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv

Adjective

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.

Related terms

• excursion

Translations

Tending to digress

• Bulgarian: отклоняващ се (otklonjavašt se)