Meaning of discursorily | Babel Free

Definitions

In a discursory manner.

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.”

“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.”

“Sir Rupert had no gift for writing; indeed, he rambles most discursorily, and is as great a vagabond with his pen as he seems to have⟳ been in his life.”

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