Discursively

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a discursive manner.

    "If then I seem to step somewhat too discursively from point to point of my topic, let me suggest that I do so in the hope of thus the better keeping unbroken that chain of graduated impression by which alone the intellect of Man can expect to encompass the grandeurs of which I speak, and, in their majestic totality, to comprehend them."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a rambling manner wordnet

Synonyms

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ramblingly

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"If then I seem to step somewhat too discursively from point to point of my topic, let me suggest that I do so in the hope of thus the better keeping unbroken that chain of graduated impression by which alone the intellect of Man can expect to encompass the grandeurs of which I speak, and, in their majestic totality, to comprehend them."

Etymology

From discursive + -ly.

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