excursive

Adjective

excursive (comparative more excursive, superlative most excursive)

1. Tending to digress.
   • 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.1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, Contemplation, page 3
   • Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
2. Tending to go out.
   • 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.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC