Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Discursive

Discursive , adjective

[Compare French discursif. See Discourse, and compare Discoursive.]

1.
Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Discursive notices. — De Quincey
The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. — Hazlitt
A man rather tacit than discursive. — Carlyle
2.
Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. — Milton