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discursion rare.|dɪˈskɜːʃən|
Also 6 discorsioun.
[ad. L. discursiōn-em, n. of action from discurrĕre to run to and fro: see discur.]
†1. The action of running or moving to and fro.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 404 Richt grit displesour he had euerie da Of the discorsioun maid be Inglismen. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xviii. 618 Volatils are most needful, for greater penetration and quicker discursion.
2. fig. The action of passing from the subject under consideration; digression.
1851G. Brimley Ess., Wordsw. 169 The name recalls us from our discursion to speak of one whom, [etc.].
3. The action of passing from premisses to conclusions; reasoning; = discourse n. 2.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 132 Turning the discursion of his judgement from things abroad, to those which are within himselfe. 1650Hobbes Human Nature iv. 31 The succession of conceptions in the Minde..may be orderly..and this is discourse of the Minde. But because the word Discourse is commonly taken for the coherence and consequence of words, I will, to avoid equivocation, call it discursion. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. x. 160 Discourse here..does not mean what we now call discoursing; but the discursion of the mind. 1846O. A. Brownson Wks. V. 506 An act of intuition or of discursion as well as of faith..involves it. |