Discursorily
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In a discursory manner.
"HAVING, in the preceding pages, discursorily looked to the works of some of the early Fathers, with the particular view of informing myself, whether they furnish any “Evidence” as to the order in which the Gospels were written, and having noticed the mal-version of Lardner in several instances, — I take this opportunity just to consider a still earlier document, which appears to me not to have been fully understood, from the inadequate translation commonly given of it."
Example
More examples"HAVING, in the preceding pages, discursorily looked to the works of some of the early Fathers, with the particular view of informing myself, whether they furnish any “Evidence” as to the order in which the Gospels were written, and having noticed the mal-version of Lardner in several instances, — I take this opportunity just to consider a still earlier document, which appears to me not to have been fully understood, from the inadequate translation commonly given of it."
Etymology
From discursory + -ly.
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