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discursorily

discursorily adverb: in a discursory manner.

Adverb

discursorily (comparative more discursorily, superlative most discursorily)

  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...1806, [Charles Dunster], Discursory Considerations on the Supposed Evidence of the Early Fathers, That St. Matthew’s Gospel Was the First Written, London: […] J. Nichols and Son, […] T. Payne, […]...
    • But John Randolph, always happy in his element of universal opposition, battled against the men of his own section in his peculiar way, sometimes with ability, always discursorily, and frequently with the keenest satire.1869, Benson J[ohn] Lossing, chapter XI, in The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812; or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the Last...

Forms of discursorily

comparativemore discursorily
superlativemost discursorily

Origin of discursorily

From discursory + -ly.

Questions about discursorily

What does discursorily mean?
Discursorily means in a discursory manner.
What part of speech is discursorily?
Discursorily is an adverb.

Words near discursorily in the dictionary

  1. discursiveness
  2. discursivise
  3. discursivised
  4. discursivities
  5. discursivity
  6. discursorily
  7. discursory
  8. discursus
  9. discursuses
  10. discus
  11. discus fish

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