ADJECTIVE
  1. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
    his excursive remarks
    a rambling discursive book
    amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things
    a rambling speech about this and that
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How To Use excursive In A Sentence

  • Result: Megaarpaea delavyi Franch can obviously accelerate push movement of rat small intestine, swell guinea pig shrink power of excursive ileum flesh, and unable arouse strong straight contraction.
  • Her acquaintance among them was more widely extended, her visits to their humble dwellings were more frequent and excursive than they had ever been before. Agnes Grey
  • So is Jamie Lynn Sigler, the "Soprano" star suffered from anorexia and excursive bulimia for years. CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2006
  • I have seen the Lago di Garda, Albano, De Vico, Bolsena, and Geneva, and, upon my honour, I prefer Lough – Lomond to them all, a preference which is certainly owing to the verdant islands that seem to float upon its surface, affording the most inchanting objects of repose to the excursive view. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • The seminar of the removal and disposal of obsolete offshore installations and structures in the excursive economic zone and continental shelf was held in sept 1995 at Bangkok.
  • his excursive remarks
  • But if any excursive brain rove over the images of forepassed times, and wonder that Thou the God Almighty and All-creating and The Confessions
  • But neither philosophical curiosity, nor commercial industry, have yet fixed their abode here, where the importunity of immediate want supplied but for the day, and craving on the morrow, has left little room for excursive knowledge or the pleasing fancies of distant profit. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
  • Willises invariably restricted the somewhat excursive tastes of female servants in general. Sketches by Boz
  • In each the larger animal keeps a contemptuous good humour; in each the smaller annoys him with wasp-like impudence, certain of practical immunity; in each we shall find a double life producing double characters, and an excursive and noisy heroism combined with a fair amount of practical timidity. Memories and Portraits
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